diff --git a/src/you_get/common.py b/src/you_get/common.py
index fc9b734d..966d390c 100755
--- a/src/you_get/common.py
+++ b/src/you_get/common.py
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ SITES = {
 }
 
 import getopt
+import http
 import json
 import locale
 import os
@@ -231,15 +232,24 @@ def undeflate(data):
     decompressobj = zlib.decompressobj(-zlib.MAX_WBITS)
     return decompressobj.decompress(data)+decompressobj.flush()
 
-# DEPRECATED in favor of get_content()
-def get_response(url, faker = False):
-    # install cookies
-    if cookies:
-        opener = request.build_opener(request.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookies))
-        request.install_opener(opener)
+cj = http.cookiejar.CookieJar()
+def getOpener(head):
+    pro = request.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj)
+    opener = request.build_opener(pro)
+    header = []
+    for key, value in head.items():
+        elem = (key, value)
+        header.append(elem)
+    opener.addheaders = header
+    return opener
 
+# DEPRECATED in favor of get_content()
+def get_response(url, faker = False, youku_url=None):
     if faker:
-        response = request.urlopen(request.Request(url, headers = fake_headers), None)
+        if youku_url:
+            fake_headers['Referer'] = youku_url
+        opener = getOpener(fake_headers)
+        response = opener.open(url)
     else:
         response = request.urlopen(url)
 
@@ -252,8 +262,8 @@ def get_response(url, faker = False):
     return response
 
 # DEPRECATED in favor of get_content()
-def get_html(url, encoding = None, faker = False):
-    content = get_response(url, faker).data
+def get_html(url, encoding = None, faker = False, youku_url=None):
+    content = get_response(url, faker, youku_url).data
     return str(content, 'utf-8', 'ignore')
 
 # DEPRECATED in favor of get_content()
diff --git a/src/you_get/extractors/youku.py b/src/you_get/extractors/youku.py
index 006e5a72..35606a9f 100644
--- a/src/you_get/extractors/youku.py
+++ b/src/you_get/extractors/youku.py
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class Youku(VideoExtractor):
 
         api_url = 'http://play.youku.com/play/get.json?vid=%s&ct=12' % self.vid
         try:
-            meta = json.loads(get_html(api_url))
+            meta = json.loads(get_html(api_url, faker=True, youku_url=self.url))
             data = meta['data']
             assert 'stream' in data
         except:
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ class Youku(VideoExtractor):
             if self.password_protected:
                 m3u8_url += '&password={}'.format(self.password)
 
-            m3u8 = get_html(m3u8_url)
+            m3u8 = get_html(m3u8_url, faker=True)
 
             self.streams[stream_id]['src'] = self.__class__.parse_m3u8(m3u8)
             if not self.streams[stream_id]['src'] and self.password_protected: