[utils] Fix inconsistent default handling between HTTP and HTTPS requests (#4158)

Default headers such as `Content-Type` were only being added for HTTPS requests among other handling.

Fixes bug in be4a824d74

Authored-by: coletdjnz

yt_dlp/extractor/dropout.py

@@ -119,16 +119,16 @@ class DropoutIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         display_id = self._match_id(url)
-        login_err, webpage = False, ''
+
-        try:
+        webpage = None
+        if self._get_cookies('https://www.dropout.tv').get('_session'):
+            webpage = self._download_webpage(url, display_id)
+        if not webpage or '<div id="watch-unauthorized"' in webpage:
             login_err = self._login(display_id)
             webpage = self._download_webpage(url, display_id)
-        finally:
+            if login_err and '<div id="watch-unauthorized"' in webpage:
-            if not login_err:
-                self._download_webpage('https://www.dropout.tv/logout', display_id, note='Logging out', fatal=False)
-            elif '<div id="watch-unauthorized"' in webpage:
                 if login_err is True:
-                    self.raise_login_required(method='password')
+                    self.raise_login_required(method='any')
                 raise ExtractorError(login_err, expected=True)
 
         embed_url = self._search_regex(r'embed_url:\s*["\'](.+?)["\']', webpage, 'embed url')

yt_dlp/extractor/youtube.py

@@ -2643,29 +2643,44 @@ class YoutubeIE(YoutubeBaseInfoExtractor):
         return sts
 
     def _mark_watched(self, video_id, player_responses):
-        playback_url = get_first(
+        for is_full, key in enumerate(('videostatsPlaybackUrl', 'videostatsWatchtimeUrl')):
-            player_responses, ('playbackTracking', 'videostatsPlaybackUrl', 'baseUrl'),
+            label = 'fully ' if is_full else ''
+            url = get_first(player_responses, ('playbackTracking', key, 'baseUrl'),
                             expected_type=url_or_none)
-        if not playback_url:
+            if not url:
-            self.report_warning('Unable to mark watched')
+                self.report_warning(f'Unable to mark {label}watched')
                 return
-        parsed_playback_url = compat_urlparse.urlparse(playback_url)
+            parsed_url = compat_urlparse.urlparse(url)
-        qs = compat_urlparse.parse_qs(parsed_playback_url.query)
+            qs = compat_urlparse.parse_qs(parsed_url.query)
 
             # cpn generation algorithm is reverse engineered from base.js.
             # In fact it works even with dummy cpn.
             CPN_ALPHABET = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_'
             cpn = ''.join(CPN_ALPHABET[random.randint(0, 256) & 63] for _ in range(0, 16))
 
+            # # more consistent results setting it to right before the end
+            video_length = [str(float((qs.get('len') or ['1.5'])[0]) - 1)]
+
             qs.update({
                 'ver': ['2'],
                 'cpn': [cpn],
+                'cmt': video_length,
+                'el': 'detailpage',  # otherwise defaults to "shorts"
             })
-        playback_url = compat_urlparse.urlunparse(
+
-            parsed_playback_url._replace(query=compat_urllib_parse_urlencode(qs, True)))
+            if is_full:
+                # these seem to mark watchtime "history" in the real world
+                # they're required, so send in a single value
+                qs.update({
+                    'st': video_length,
+                    'et': video_length,
+                })
+
+            url = compat_urlparse.urlunparse(
+                parsed_url._replace(query=compat_urllib_parse_urlencode(qs, True)))
 
             self._download_webpage(
-            playback_url, video_id, 'Marking watched',
+                url, video_id, f'Marking {label}watched',
                 'Unable to mark watched', fatal=False)
 
     @staticmethod

yt_dlp/utils.py

@@ -1343,7 +1343,7 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
 
         req.headers = handle_youtubedl_headers(req.headers)
 
-        return req
+        return super().do_request_(req)
 
     def http_response(self, req, resp):
         old_resp = resp