From 6b63168d9831e36a4c5faa1f7cdc6f3b18ab2554 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wpbonelli <wbonelli@ucar.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:38:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(get-modflow): use urlopen for download

---
 flopy/utils/get_modflow.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/flopy/utils/get_modflow.py b/flopy/utils/get_modflow.py
index a26da6de6..73e791edf 100755
--- a/flopy/utils/get_modflow.py
+++ b/flopy/utils/get_modflow.py
@@ -464,7 +464,11 @@ def run_main(
     else:
         if not quiet:
             print(f"downloading '{download_url}' to '{download_pth}'")
-        urllib.request.urlretrieve(download_url, download_pth)
+        with urlopen(
+            urllib.request.Request(download_url), timeout=120, quiet=quiet
+        ) as resp:
+            with open(download_pth, "wb") as f:
+                shutil.copyfileobj(resp, f)
 
     if subset:
         if isinstance(subset, str):