- request = compat_urllib_request.Request(
- 'https://login.vk.com/?act=login',
- compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(login_form).encode('utf-8'))
+ # https://new.vk.com/ serves two same remixlhk cookies in Set-Cookie header
+ # and expects the first one to be set rather than second (see
+ # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/9841#issuecomment-227871201).
+ # As of RFC6265 the newer one cookie should be set into cookie store
+ # what actually happens.
+ # We will workaround this VK issue by resetting the remixlhk cookie to
+ # the first one manually.
+ cookies = url_handle.headers.get('Set-Cookie')
+ if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+ cookies = cookies.encode('iso-8859-1')
+ cookies = cookies.decode('utf-8')
+ remixlhk = re.search(r'remixlhk=(.+?);.*?\bdomain=(.+?)(?:[,;]|$)', cookies)
+ if remixlhk:
+ value, domain = remixlhk.groups()
+ self._set_cookie(domain, 'remixlhk', value)
+