Trigger progress updates for frozen downloads #4052
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Motivation
Sometimes CKAN is able to connect to a host, but the download times out without sending any data (it seems like SpaceDock does this every few weeks). Since our system for progress updates depends on traffic received, this means that no progress updates are sent. And since these progress updates drive the progress bars on the progress tab, and since they are ignored unless 3 seconds have already passed since the download group started, I'm pretty sure it's possible for such a frozen download to never show up as an empty progress bar.
Changes
.gitignore
for convenience