def __call__(self, value):
        try:
            super(URLValidator, self).__call__(value)
        except ValidationError, e:
            # Trivial case failed. Try for possible IDN domain
            if value:
                value = smart_unicode(value)
                scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment = urlparse.urlsplit(value)
                try:
                    netloc = netloc.encode('idna') # IDN -> ACE
                except UnicodeError: # invalid domain part
                    raise e
                url = urlparse.urlunsplit((scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment))
                super(URLValidator, self).__call__(url)
            else:
                raise
        else:
            url = value

        #This is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
        if self.verify_exists:
            headers = {
                "Accept": "text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5",
                "Accept-Language": "en-us,en;q=0.5",
                "Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7",
                "Connection": "close",
                "User-Agent": self.user_agent,
            }
            url = url.encode('utf-8')
            broken_error = ValidationError(
                _(u'This URL appears to be a broken link.'), code='invalid_link')
            try:
                req = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)
                req.get_method = lambda: 'HEAD'
                #Create an opener that does not support local file access
                opener = urllib2.OpenerDirector()

                #Don't follow redirects, but don't treat them as errors either
                error_nop = lambda *args, **kwargs: True
                http_error_processor = urllib2.HTTPErrorProcessor()
                http_error_processor.http_error_301 = error_nop
                http_error_processor.http_error_302 = error_nop
                http_error_processor.http_error_307 = error_nop

                handlers = [urllib2.UnknownHandler(),
                            urllib2.HTTPHandler(),
                            urllib2.HTTPDefaultErrorHandler(),
                            urllib2.FTPHandler(),
                            http_error_processor]
                try:
                    import ssl
                    handlers.append(urllib2.HTTPSHandler())
                except:
                    #Python isn't compiled with SSL support
                    pass
                map(opener.add_handler, handlers)
                if platform.python_version_tuple() >= (2, 6):
                    opener.open(req, timeout=10)
                else:
                    opener.open(req)
            except ValueError:
                raise ValidationError(_(u'Enter a valid URL.'), code='invalid')
            except: # urllib2.URLError, httplib.InvalidURL, etc.
                raise broken_error
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