diff --git a/test/testextra/test_hevc.py b/test/testextra/test_hevc.py
index 331abd5f9e..289d907466 100644
--- a/test/testextra/test_hevc.py
+++ b/test/testextra/test_hevc.py
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 import unittest
 
-from tinygrad import Tensor, Device
+from tinygrad import Device
+from tinygrad.helpers import fetch
 from extra.hevc.hevc import parse_hevc_file_headers, nv_gpu
 
 class TestHevc(unittest.TestCase):
   def test_hevc_parser(self):
     url = "https://github.com/haraschax/filedump/raw/09a497959f7fa6fd8dba501a25f2cdb3a41ecb12/comma_video.hevc"
-    hevc_tensor = Tensor.from_url(url, device="CPU")
+    dat = fetch(url, headers={"Range": f"bytes=0-{512<<10}"}).read_bytes()
 
-    dat = bytes(hevc_tensor.data())
     opaque, frame_info, w, h, luma_w, luma_h, chroma_off = parse_hevc_file_headers(dat, device=Device.DEFAULT)
 
     def _test_common(frame, bts):
diff --git a/tinygrad/helpers.py b/tinygrad/helpers.py
index 8fbf11d074..07ea8cf914 100644
--- a/tinygrad/helpers.py
+++ b/tinygrad/helpers.py
@@ -381,14 +381,14 @@ def _ensure_downloads_dir() -> pathlib.Path:
   return pathlib.Path(cache_dir) / "downloads"
 
 def fetch(url:str, name:pathlib.Path|str|None=None, subdir:str|None=None, gunzip:bool=False,
-          allow_caching=not getenv("DISABLE_HTTP_CACHE")) -> pathlib.Path:
+          allow_caching=not getenv("DISABLE_HTTP_CACHE"), headers={}) -> pathlib.Path:
   if url.startswith(("/", ".")): return pathlib.Path(url)
   if name is not None and (isinstance(name, pathlib.Path) or '/' in name): fp = pathlib.Path(name)
   else: fp = _ensure_downloads_dir() / (subdir or "") / ((name or hashlib.md5(url.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()) + (".gunzip" if gunzip else ""))
   if not fp.is_file() or not allow_caching:
     (_dir := fp.parent).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "tinygrad 0.11.0"}), timeout=10) as r:
-      assert r.status == 200, r.status
+    with urllib.request.urlopen(urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "tinygrad 0.11.0", **headers}), timeout=10) as r:
+      assert r.status in {200, 206}, r.status
       length = int(r.headers.get('content-length', 0)) if not gunzip else None
       readfile = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=r) if gunzip else r
       progress_bar:tqdm = tqdm(total=length, unit='B', unit_scale=True, desc=f"{url}", disable=CI)