daily show download not working

[pkhannah]

This happens with the default ubuntu install and the latest as of now in github.

Fails: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/tjnjbd/december-10--2014---suki-kim
Works: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/mjgsgz/december-9--2014---kathryn-bigelow---juan-zarate

Message:
[ComedyCentralShows] december-10--2014---suki-kim: Downloading webpage
[ComedyCentralShows] december-10--2014---suki-kim: Downloading show index
[ComedyCentralShows] december-10--2014---suki-kim: Downloading configuration for segment 1 / 4
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pkh/youtube-dl/bin/youtube-dl", line 6, in
youtube_dl.main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/init.py", line 355, in main
_real_main(argv)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/init.py", line 345, in _real_main
retcode = ydl.download(all_urls)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1121, in download
res = self.extract_info(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 553, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 241, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/comedycentral.py", line 188, in _real_extract
'Downloading configuration for segment %d / %d' % (part_num + 1, len(item_els)))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 382, in _download_xml
return xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(xml_string.encode('utf-8'))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
parser.feed(text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
self._raiseerror(v)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
raise err
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: syntax error: line 1, column 49

[pkhannah]

K, not an issue with the app as such.

data: '\n\n<title>503 Service Temporarily Unavailable</title>\n\n

Service Temporarily Unavailable

\n

The server is temporarily unable to service your\nrequest due to maintenance downtime or capacity\nproblems. Please try again later.

\n'

But, maybe it's possible to catch this so we can display this text (possibly sanitized?) to the user so it's obvious where the problem is?

[phihag]

Works now. Since this is a "soft 503" (i.e. the HTTP code is 200) and only happened once, I do not think it's necessary to add dedicated handler code for this rare condition, although you are certainly welcome to contribute.

Thanks for the report!