+class YoutubeDLHandler(urllib2.HTTPHandler):
+ """Handler for HTTP requests and responses.
+
+ This class, when installed with an OpenerDirector, automatically adds
+ the standard headers to every HTTP request and handles gzipped and
+ deflated responses from web servers. If compression is to be avoided in
+ a particular request, the original request in the program code only has
+ to include the HTTP header "Youtubedl-No-Compression", which will be
+ removed before making the real request.
+
+ Part of this code was copied from:
+
+ http://techknack.net/python-urllib2-handlers/
+
+ Andrew Rowls, the author of that code, agreed to release it to the
+ public domain.
+ """
+
+ @staticmethod
+ def deflate(data):
+ try:
+ return zlib.decompress(data, -zlib.MAX_WBITS)
+ except zlib.error:
+ return zlib.decompress(data)
+
+ @staticmethod
+ def addinfourl_wrapper(stream, headers, url, code):
+ if hasattr(urllib2.addinfourl, 'getcode'):
+ return urllib2.addinfourl(stream, headers, url, code)
+ ret = urllib2.addinfourl(stream, headers, url)
+ ret.code = code
+ return ret
+
+ def http_request(self, req):
+ for h in std_headers:
+ if h in req.headers:
+ del req.headers[h]
+ req.add_header(h, std_headers[h])
+ if 'Youtubedl-no-compression' in req.headers:
+ if 'Accept-encoding' in req.headers:
+ del req.headers['Accept-encoding']
+ del req.headers['Youtubedl-no-compression']
+ return req
+
+ def http_response(self, req, resp):
+ old_resp = resp
+ # gzip
+ if resp.headers.get('Content-encoding', '') == 'gzip':
+ gz = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO.StringIO(resp.read()), mode='r')
+ resp = self.addinfourl_wrapper(gz, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
+ resp.msg = old_resp.msg
+ # deflate
+ if resp.headers.get('Content-encoding', '') == 'deflate':
+ gz = StringIO.StringIO(self.deflate(resp.read()))
+ resp = self.addinfourl_wrapper(gz, old_resp.headers, old_resp.url, old_resp.code)
+ resp.msg = old_resp.msg
+ return resp
+