youtube-dl

commit: dbc1366b502db813a27aaa9ab2fa5148749ac659
parent 704df56da7b074697138e715027c699a54b1b95a
Author: Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:55:15 +0200

[mixcloud] Use a HEAD request when checking if the url is valid

Diffstat:
M
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
@@ -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