[http- unzip_http] handle errors in retrieving URLs #2655
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This PR catches a few more error cases when retrieving URLs. Every new case handled is a situation I triggered in testing.
So for example, the stack trace on a nonexistent zipfile from a 404 with a particular server configuration:
becomes
cannot open URL: status code 404
.The web servers that host data tend to be poorly maintained, so visidata users will run into such errors unusually often.
Tested on Python 3.8 and Python 3.12 to make sure the Exception classes exist in the oldest and newest libraries.