From dbc1366b502db813a27aaa9ab2fa5148749ac659 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:55:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [mixcloud] Use a HEAD request when checking if the url is valid --- youtube_dl/extractor/mixcloud.py | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/mixcloud.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/mixcloud.py index 5f64e7bd0..520f27fca 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/mixcloud.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/mixcloud.py @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from .common import InfoExtractor from ..utils import ( compat_urllib_parse, ExtractorError, + HEADRequest, int_or_none, parse_iso8601, ) @@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ class MixcloudIE(InfoExtractor): try: # We only want to know if the request succeed # don't download the whole file - self._request_webpage(url, None, False) + self._request_webpage(HEADRequest(url), None, False) return url except ExtractorError: url = None