From 4240d504963bb6d1c7bd7c288a7874f9d8dc042b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?=
<jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:07:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [YoutubeDL] improve error message for file:/// URLs
---
youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index ccad5f2ea..4915fbd45 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -1994,7 +1994,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
file_handler = compat_urllib_request.FileHandler()
def file_open(*args, **kwargs):
- raise compat_urllib_error.URLError('file protocol is disabled')
+ raise compat_urllib_error.URLError('file:/// protocol is explicitly disabled in youtube-dl for security reasons')
file_handler.file_open = file_open
opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(