From c1d1facd06690bbffc7637be4ace62261b5b2552 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:38:42 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [generic] Output something before making network requests

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

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index 7a14c98f9..377ae91c4 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
             return self.url_result('http://' + url)
         video_id = os.path.splitext(url.split('/')[-1])[0]
 
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Requesting header' % video_id)
+
         try:
             response = self._send_head(url)