Found this community supported package for fetching data files instead of using the direct libraries urllib and the such. Provides:
- Way better error handling than we currently have. No more data files existing that acutally contain http fetch request failures rather than data.
- Built-in abilities to handle multiple types of data, e.g. zip.
- Can fetch using more than just URLs, e.g. DOIs.
- Also handles multiple protocols.
Pooch