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Isolate urllib.request.urlretrieve for later replacement. #34

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This branch simply refactors to isolate urllib.request.urlretrieve in a separate function to simplify later code review.

This is intended to be a starting point for a conversation about replacing urllib.request.urlretrieve with requests.get.
The newer interface offers quality-of-life features, in particular, using the environment variable REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE to allow downloading through a proxy.
The legacy urllib.request.urlretrieve interface doesn't even respect SSL_CERT_FILE, making it impossible to use fvcore without manually changing the internals.

Since pip itself uses requests these days, introducing a dependency on requests is probably not worth worrying about.

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