[howcast] Do not download from http://www.howcast.com/videos/{video_id}

It takes too much to follow the redirection.

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/howcast.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/howcast.py
index 6104c4b5e910c5bcd61574b26b1bf6a57ba5bbce..46954337f25e1cbd7bae89e7da76d4e93ecc8c9e 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/howcast.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/howcast.py
@@ -19,8 +19,7 @@ class HowcastIE(InfoExtractor):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group('id')
-        webpage_url = 'http://www.howcast.com/videos/' + video_id
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(webpage_url, video_id)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
 
         self.report_extraction(video_id)