Support request: Hbo's free episodes

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Hbo has some free shows. Example: The latest "Last night tonight with John Oliver" (full), at http://www.hbo.com/watch-free-episodes/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver

But: Attempting to get that URL from youtube-dl fails. Looking at the page in Firebug, the URL being fetched/played is http://www.hbo.com/70a4875c-d499-0c45-b77b-2086d322da8e, and passing that URL to youtube-dl also fails.

keybounceMBP:Downloads michael$ youtube-dl -v http://www.hbo.com/watch-free-episodes/last-week-ton
ight-with-john-oliver
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'-o', u'%(title)s.%(ext)s', u'-f', u'\nbest[ext=mp4][height>431][height<=576]/\nbestvideo[ext=mp4][height=480]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/\nbest[ext=mp4][height>340][height<=431]/\nbestvideo[ext=mp4][height>360][height<=576]+bestaudio/\nbest[height>340][height<=576]/\nbestvideo[height>360][height<=576]+bestaudio/\nbestvideo[height=360]+bestaudio/\nbest[ext=mp4][height>=280][height<=360]/\nbest[height<=576]/\nworst', u'--write-sub', u'--write-auto-sub', u'--sub-lang', u'en,enUS', u'--sub-format', u'srt/ass/best', u'--embed-subs', u'--recode-video', u'mp4', u'--mark-watched']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.hbo.com/watch-free-episodes/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.20
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2, ffprobe 3.2.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver: Downloading webpage
[generic] last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.hbo.com/watch-free-episodes/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1779, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2526, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2515, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 1, column 1860
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 761, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 428, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2642, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.hbo.com/watch-free-episodes/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver

keybounceMBP:Downloads michael$ youtube-dl -v http://www.hbo.com/70a4875c-d499-0c45-b77b-2086d322d
a8e
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'-o', u'%(title)s.%(ext)s', u'-f', u'\nbest[ext=mp4][height>431][height<=576]/\nbestvideo[ext=mp4][height=480]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/\nbest[ext=mp4][height>340][height<=431]/\nbestvideo[ext=mp4][height>360][height<=576]+bestaudio/\nbest[height>340][height<=576]/\nbestvideo[height>360][height<=576]+bestaudio/\nbestvideo[height=360]+bestaudio/\nbest[ext=mp4][height>=280][height<=360]/\nbest[height<=576]/\nworst', u'--write-sub', u'--write-auto-sub', u'--sub-lang', u'en,enUS', u'--sub-format', u'srt/ass/best', u'--embed-subs', u'--recode-video', u'mp4', u'--mark-watched']
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.hbo.com/70a4875c-d499-0c45-b77b-2086d322da8e']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.03.20
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2, ffprobe 3.2.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 70a4875c-d499-0c45-b77b-2086d322da8e: Requesting header
WARNING: Could not send HEAD request to http://www.hbo.com/70a4875c-d499-0c45-b77b-2086d322da8e: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[generic] 70a4875c-d499-0c45-b77b-2086d322da8e: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 497, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/Users/michael/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2094, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)

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