lkiesow
commented
4 years ago The idea for this would basically be that if we request a checksum, we store it in a file called something like filename-of-the-nc-file.nc.md5sum and before making the request, we check if such a file exists and use its content instead of making an HTTP request.
The code in question would be:
We should store the hash files after we have downloaded them. So we can check if the hash file matches the downloaded .nc file without any network connection. This is pretty handy, since the ESA website is painfully slow even for the hash files.