Stop using HEAD in get_file_name

nansencenter / django-geo-spaas-processing

Processing tools for GeoSPaaS

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Closed aperrin66 closed 1 year ago

aperrin66 commented 1 year ago

Using HEAD to get the file name is inefficient because:

it takes one more request in the download process
it is refused by some providers and it is needed to make a GET request anyway
the extra request is sometimes counted by providers which implement parallel download limits