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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index da50abfc1..12169b2bb 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
     uploader_id:    Nickname or id of the video uploader.
     location:       Physical location of the video.
     player_url:     SWF Player URL (used for rtmpdump).
-    subtitles:      The subtitle file contents.
+    subtitles:      The subtitle file contents as a dictionary in the format
+                    {language: subtitles}.
     view_count:     How many users have watched the video on the platform.
     urlhandle:      [internal] The urlHandle to be used to download the file,
                     like returned by urllib.request.urlopen
@@ -77,7 +78,13 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
     @classmethod
     def suitable(cls, url):
         """Receives a URL and returns True if suitable for this IE."""
-        return re.match(cls._VALID_URL, url) is not None
+
+        # This does not use has/getattr intentionally - we want to know whether
+        # we have cached the regexp for *this* class, whereas getattr would also
+        # match the superclass
+        if '_VALID_URL_RE' not in cls.__dict__:
+            cls._VALID_URL_RE = re.compile(cls._VALID_URL)
+        return cls._VALID_URL_RE.match(url) is not None
 
     @classmethod
     def working(cls):
@@ -122,7 +129,7 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
             if errnote is None:
                 errnote = u'Unable to download webpage'
-            raise ExtractorError(u'%s: %s' % (errnote, compat_str(err)), sys.exc_info()[2])
+            raise ExtractorError(u'%s: %s' % (errnote, compat_str(err)), sys.exc_info()[2], cause=err)
 
     def _download_webpage_handle(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None):
         """ Returns a tuple (page content as string, URL handle) """