[utils] Encode hostnames before passing to urllib

With IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) and a proxy, non-ascii URLs
are passed down to urllib/urllib2, causing UnicodeEncodeError

Fixes #8890

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/test_http.py b/test/test_http.py
index fc59b1aed..15e0ad369 100644
--- a/test/test_http.py
+++ b/test/test_http.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
+# coding: utf-8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 # Allow direct execution
@@ -120,5 +121,14 @@ class TestProxy(unittest.TestCase):
         response = ydl.urlopen(req).read().decode('utf-8')
         self.assertEqual(response, 'cn: {0}'.format(url))
 
+    def test_proxy_with_idn(self):
+        ydl = YoutubeDL({
+            'proxy': 'localhost:{0}'.format(self.port),
+        })
+        url = 'http://中文.tw/'
+        response = ydl.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf-8')
+        # b'xn--fiq228c' is '中文'.encode('idna')
+        self.assertEqual(response, 'normal: http://xn--fiq228c.tw/')
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()