From 61ca9a80b34b14fa0e5e19e35ee76e0086d49edf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:21:30 +0100
Subject: [generic] Add support for BOMs (Fixes #4753)

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py')

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index 7a5bf9392..b893d8149 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from ..utils import (
     ExtractorError,
     float_or_none,
     HEADRequest,
+    is_html,
     orderedSet,
     parse_xml,
     smuggle_url,
@@ -647,7 +648,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
         # Maybe it's a direct link to a video?
         # Be careful not to download the whole thing!
         first_bytes = full_response.read(512)
-        if not re.match(r'^\s*<', first_bytes.decode('utf-8', 'replace')):
+        if not is_html(first_bytes):
             self._downloader.report_warning(
                 'URL could be a direct video link, returning it as such.')
             upload_date = unified_strdate(
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