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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _download_raw(self, url=None):
 """Download content from URL directly."""

        if url is None:
            url = self.url
        req = request.Request(url, headers=self.HEADERS_PLAIN)
        return request.urlopen(req).read().decode("utf8")