import re
 
 from .common import InfoExtractor
-from ..compat import (
-    compat_etree_fromstring,
-    compat_urllib_request,
-)
+from ..compat import compat_etree_fromstring
 from ..utils import (
     ExtractorError,
     int_or_none,
+    sanitized_Request,
 )
 
 
     _SMIL_BASE_URL = 'http://smil.lvl3.vevo.com/'
 
     def _real_initialize(self):
-        req = compat_urllib_request.Request(
+        req = sanitized_Request(
             'http://www.vevo.com/auth', data=b'')
         webpage = self._download_webpage(
             req, None,