[incubator-mxnet] branch v1.x updated: downloading MNIST dataset from alternate URL (#20014)

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/v1.x by this push:
     new 18e4bc4  downloading MNIST dataset from alternate URL (#20014)
18e4bc4 is described below

commit 18e4bc472b3fe8b8c8e9ea48b03fa2e24c29b184
Author: Rohit Kumar Srivastava <sr...@osu.edu>
AuthorDate: Fri Mar 12 00:15:48 2021 -0800

    downloading MNIST dataset from alternate URL (#20014)
    
    Co-authored-by: Rohit Kumar Srivastava <sr...@buckeyemail.osu.edu>
---
 example/image-classification/train_mnist.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/example/image-classification/train_mnist.py b/example/image-classification/train_mnist.py
index d47521f..2b256e2 100755
--- a/example/image-classification/train_mnist.py
+++ b/example/image-classification/train_mnist.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def read_data(label, image):
     """
     download and read data into numpy
     """
-    base_url = 'http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/'
+    base_url = 'https://web.archive.org/web/20160828233817/http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/'
     with gzip.open(download_file(base_url+label, os.path.join('data',label))) as flbl:
         magic, num = struct.unpack(">II", flbl.read(8))
         label = np.fromstring(flbl.read(), dtype=np.int8)