From b9d3e1635fd2f5724452130bf2f05ea0112cd1ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:52:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Strip hash info from URL when making requests (Fixes #1038)
---
youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 52ae98be3..ec988fc90 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
def _download_webpage_handle(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None):
""" Returns a tuple (page content as string, URL handle) """
+
+ # Strip hashes from the URL (#1038)
+ if isinstance(url_or_request, (compat_str, str)):
+ url_or_request = url_or_request.partition('#')[0]
+
urlh = self._request_webpage(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote)
content_type = urlh.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
m = re.match(r'[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+/[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+\s*;\s*charset=(.+)', content_type)