diff --git a/django/newforms/fields.py b/django/newforms/fields.py
index 08e8b842ec..dfe46a2e3e 100644
--- a/django/newforms/fields.py
+++ b/django/newforms/fields.py
@@ -514,7 +514,6 @@ class URLField(RegexField):
             return value
         if self.verify_exists:
             import urllib2
-            from django.conf import settings
             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",