From dbc1366b502db813a27aaa9ab2fa5148749ac659 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jaime=20Marqui=CC=81nez=20Ferra=CC=81ndiz?=
 <jaime.marquinez.ferrandiz@gmail.com>
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