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
withrequests.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 onrequests
is probably not worth worrying about.