From 4240d504963bb6d1c7bd7c288a7874f9d8dc042b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?=
 <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:07:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [YoutubeDL] improve error message for file:/// URLs

---
 youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index ccad5f2eaa..4915fbd45f 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -1994,7 +1994,7 @@ def _setup_opener(self):
         file_handler = compat_urllib_request.FileHandler()
 
         def file_open(*args, **kwargs):
-            raise compat_urllib_error.URLError('file protocol is disabled')
+            raise compat_urllib_error.URLError('file:/// protocol is explicitly disabled in youtube-dl for security reasons')
         file_handler.file_open = file_open
 
         opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(