From 4069766c527d10b8e25b9262a3882101367deb3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey M? <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:31:35 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] [extractor/common] Test URLs with GET

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index e74b7bf25..4b0ee882c 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -753,9 +753,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
 
     def _is_valid_url(self, url, video_id, item='video'):
         try:
-            self._request_webpage(
-                HEADRequest(url), video_id,
-                'Checking %s URL' % item)
+            self._request_webpage(url, video_id, 'Checking %s URL' % item)
             return True
         except ExtractorError as e:
             if isinstance(e.cause, compat_HTTPError):
-- 
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