acast bug: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 503: Success

[MaZZly]

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Console output:

$ youtube-dl https://www.acast.com/condenasttraveler/-where-are-you-taipei-101-taiwan -v
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'https://www.acast.com/condenasttraveler/-where-are-you-taipei-101-taiwan', u'-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.04.06
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.13.0-32-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
[debug] exe versions: avconv 9.18-6, avprobe 9.18-6, ffmpeg 2.6.2, ffprobe 2.6.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[acast] -where-are-you-taipei-101-taiwan: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 503: Success (caused by HTTPError()); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 371, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1935, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/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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Description

Site (and podcast) works without problem when going through browser so shouldn't be connectivity issue

[remitamine]

will be fixed in the next version.