From 17bcc626bf67453cc5ab67e56684b6c6e33f4cb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 19:33:57 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] [utils] Extract sanitize_url routine

---
 youtube_dl/utils.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index eacd81bf9a..6d27b80c02 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -417,9 +417,12 @@ def sanitize_path(s):
 
 # Prepend protocol-less URLs with `http:` scheme in order to mitigate the number of
 # unwanted failures due to missing protocol
+def sanitize_url(url):
+    return 'http:%s' % url if url.startswith('//') else url
+
+
 def sanitized_Request(url, *args, **kwargs):
-    return compat_urllib_request.Request(
-        'http:%s' % url if url.startswith('//') else url, *args, **kwargs)
+    return compat_urllib_request.Request(sanitize_url(url), *args, **kwargs)
 
 
 def orderedSet(iterable):