ESDC - Downloading of MODIS fails

[AliceBalfanz]

Following the recipe for ESDC I encountered an error when trying to execute the download script for MODIS:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 174, in _new_conn
    conn = connection.create_connection(
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 95, in create_connection
    raise err
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 85, in create_connection
    sock.connect(sa)
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 703, in urlopen
    httplib_response = self._make_request(
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 386, in _make_request
    self._validate_conn(conn)
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 1042, in _validate_conn
    conn.connect()
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 363, in connect
    self.sock = conn = self._new_conn()
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 186, in _new_conn
    raise NewConnectionError(
urllib3.exceptions.NewConnectionError: <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7fd4c180a940>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 489, in send
    resp = conn.urlopen(
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 787, in urlopen
    retries = retries.increment(
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 592, in increment
    raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /MOTA/MCD43C4.061/ (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7fd4c180a940>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/alicebalfanz/cube-gen/ESDC/inputs-collect/download-MCD43C4.py", line 54, in <module>
    days = get_dates_url_paths('https://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOTA/MCD43C4.061/')
  File "/home/alicebalfanz/cube-gen/ESDC/inputs-collect/download-MCD43C4.py", line 24, in get_dates_url_paths
    response = requests.get(url, params=params)
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 73, in get
    return request("get", url, params=params, **kwargs)
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 59, in request
    return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 587, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 701, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/home/conda/deepesdl/envs/cube-gen/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 565, in send
    raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /MOTA/MCD43C4.061/ (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7fd4c180a940>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))