+
+function _rai_get_actual_url(site, URL) {
+  // http://www.neaveru.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/05/09/greasemonkey-bug-domnodeinserted-event-doesnt-allow-gm_xmlhttprequest/
+  setTimeout( function() {
+    GM_xmlhttpRequest({
+      method: "GET",
+      // XXX A custom header. This is the "clever" trick Rai uses to ensure
+      // the content is accessed by www.rai.tv only...
+      headers: {'viaurl': 'www.rai.tv'},
+      url: URL,
+      onload: function(response) {
+        text = response.responseText;
+        text = text.replace(/&/g, '&')
+        parser = new DOMParser();
+        xmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(text, "text/xml");
+
+        ref = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('REF');
+        if (ref.length > 0) {
+          href = ref[0].getAttribute('HREF');;
+
+          var evt = document.createEvent('Event');  
+          evt.initEvent('UrlFetched', true, true);  
+          evt.site = site;
+          evt.URL = href;
+          document.dispatchEvent(evt);
+        }
+      }
+    });
+  }, 0);
+}