[generic] Unescape HTML escape sequences in redirect urls (fixes #6311)

9 years ago · b37317d8b0
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@ -1702,7 +1702,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
                if refresh_header:
                    found = re.search(REDIRECT_REGEX, refresh_header)
            if found:
-                new_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, found.group(1))
+                new_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, unescapeHTML(found.group(1)))
                self.report_following_redirect(new_url)
                return {
                    '_type': 'url',