youtube-dl: Unable to download webpage

I haven’t encountered this before and I’ve tried restarting my system, but I am unable to get any further past “downloading webpage”

derplex@whisky:~# time youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbLEYQo98t0
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbLEYQo98t0']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.09.08
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Linux-3.14.32-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64-x86_64-with-debian-7.11
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.7.2, ffprobe 2.7.2
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] WbLEYQo98t0: Downloading webpage
^C
ERROR: Interrupted by user

real    1m9.863s
user    0m0.956s
sys     0m0.048s

I did receive this message beforehand after ~ only 5 seconds and I’m unable to reproduce it with the -v flag

derplex@whisky:~# youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbLEYQo98t0
[youtube] WbLEYQo98t0: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:590)> (caused by URLError(SSLEOFError(8, u'EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:590)'),))

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A possible way is to change /etc/resolv.conf. Check Linux manuals.

I’m closing it first as it’s not a youtube-dl issue. More discussions are welcome.