Description of problem:
# ./youtube_downloader.sh
with URL = http://youtu.be/wUflH1gXr0E

Version-Release number of selected component:
youtube-dl-2014.04.11.1-1.fc19

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.2.1
cmdline:        python /usr/bin/youtube-dl '\xef\xbb\xbfhttp://youtu.be/wUflH1gXr0E'
dso_list:       python-libs-2.7.5-9.fc19.x86_64
executable:     /usr/bin/youtube-dl
kernel:         3.13.9-100.fc19.x86_64
runlevel:       N 5
type:           Python
uid:            1000

Truncated backtrace:
httplib.py:953:putheader:UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufeff' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 18, in <module>
    youtube_dl.main()
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 837, in main
    _real_main(argv)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 827, in _real_main
    retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1036, in download
    self.extract_info(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 525, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 569, in process_ie_result
    extra_info=extra_info)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 514, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 161, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 346, in _real_extract
    response = self._send_head(url)
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 298, in _send_head
    response = opener.open(HEADRequest(url))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1216, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1183, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 973, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1006, in _send_request
    self.putheader(hdr, value)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 953, in putheader
    hdr = '%s: %s' % (header, '\r\n\t'.join([str(v) for v in values]))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufeff' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Local variables in innermost frame:
header: 'Host'
self: <httplib.HTTPConnection instance at 0x222e248>
values: (u'\ufeffhttp:',)
v: u'\ufeffhttp:'