diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 97e25f0e2..4530c5da2 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 			# Verify URL if it's an HTTP one
 			if info_dict['url'].startswith('http'):
 				try:
-					info_dict['url'] = self.verify_url(info_dict['url'].encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8')
+					self.verify_url(info_dict['url'].encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8')
 				except (OSError, IOError, urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
 					raise UnavailableFormatError