From 77bff23ee97565bab2e0d75b893a21bf7983219a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Sawicki <contact@grub4k.xyz>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2023 15:18:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix for 59e92b1f1833440bb2190f847eb735cf0f90bc85

Closes #8012

Authored by: Grub4K
---
 yt_dlp/networking/_urllib.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/networking/_urllib.py b/yt_dlp/networking/_urllib.py
index 5a804d99b..b3e705b84 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/networking/_urllib.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/networking/_urllib.py
@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ class HTTPHandler(urllib.request.AbstractHTTPHandler):
     def gz(data):
         # There may be junk added the end of the file
         # We ignore it by only ever decoding a single gzip payload
+        if not data:
+            return data
         return zlib.decompress(data, wbits=zlib.MAX_WBITS | 16)
 
     def http_request(self, req):