diff --git a/app.py b/app.py
index d510cf7..7cd0407 100644
--- a/app.py
+++ b/app.py
@@ -94,101 +94,7 @@ def download_mpta(url: str, dest_path: str) -> str:
     try:
         logger.info(f"Starting download of model from {url} to {dest_path}")
         os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(dest_path), exist_ok=True)
-        
-        # Configure session with headers and SSL settings for compatibility
-        session = requests.Session()
-        
-        # Add headers to mimic browser request
-        headers = {
-            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
-            'Accept': '*/*',
-            'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
-            'Connection': 'keep-alive',
-            'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
-        }
-        
-        session.headers.update(headers)
-        
-        # Disable SSL verification warnings
-        urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)
-        
-        # Try multiple approaches for SSL compatibility
-        ssl_success = False
-        response = None
-        
-        # Approach 1: Standard request with verify=False and updated TLS
-        try:
-            # Create a custom SSL context with modern settings
-            ssl_context = ssl.create_default_context()
-            ssl_context.check_hostname = False
-            ssl_context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
-            ssl_context.set_ciphers('DEFAULT:@SECLEVEL=1')
-            
-            # Create adapter with custom SSL context
-            class SSLContextAdapter(HTTPAdapter):
-                def __init__(self, ssl_context=None):
-                    self.ssl_context = ssl_context
-                    super().__init__()
-                
-                def init_poolmanager(self, *args, **kwargs):
-                    kwargs['ssl_context'] = self.ssl_context
-                    return super().init_poolmanager(*args, **kwargs)
-            
-            session.mount('https://', SSLContextAdapter(ssl_context))
-            response = session.get(url, stream=True, verify=False, timeout=30)
-            ssl_success = True
-        except Exception as e1:
-            logger.debug(f"First SSL approach failed: {e1}")
-            
-            # Approach 2: Fallback to basic request without custom SSL
-            try:
-                response = session.get(url, stream=True, verify=False, timeout=30)
-                ssl_success = True
-            except Exception as e2:
-                logger.debug(f"Second SSL approach failed: {e2}")
-                
-                # Approach 3: Last resort - use system curl if available
-                try:
-                    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) as tmp_file:
-                        tmp_path = tmp_file.name
-                    
-                    curl_cmd = [
-                        'curl', '-L', '-k', '--silent', '--show-error',
-                        '-H', f'User-Agent: {headers["User-Agent"]}',
-                        '-o', tmp_path, url
-                    ]
-                    result = subprocess.run(curl_cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=60)
-                    if result.returncode == 0:
-                        # Create a fake response object
-                        class FakeResponse:
-                            def __init__(self, file_path):
-                                self.status_code = 200
-                                self.headers = {'content-length': str(os.path.getsize(file_path))}
-                                self._file_path = file_path
-                            
-                            def iter_content(self, chunk_size=8192):
-                                with open(self._file_path, 'rb') as f:
-                                    while True:
-                                        chunk = f.read(chunk_size)
-                                        if not chunk:
-                                            break
-                                        yield chunk
-                                os.unlink(self._file_path)  # Clean up temp file
-                        
-                        response = FakeResponse(tmp_path)
-                        ssl_success = True
-                        logger.info("Successfully downloaded using system curl as fallback")
-                    else:
-                        logger.error(f"curl fallback failed: {result.stderr}")
-                        if os.path.exists(tmp_path):
-                            os.unlink(tmp_path)
-                except Exception as e3:
-                    logger.debug(f"curl fallback failed: {e3}")
-                    if 'tmp_path' in locals() and os.path.exists(tmp_path):
-                        os.unlink(tmp_path)
-        
-        if not ssl_success or not response:
-            raise Exception("All SSL approaches failed - unable to establish secure connection")
+        response = requests.get(url, stream=True)
         if response.status_code == 200:
             file_size = int(response.headers.get('content-length', 0))
             logger.info(f"Model file size: {file_size/1024/1024:.2f} MB")
@@ -207,13 +113,6 @@ def download_mpta(url: str, dest_path: str) -> str:
     except Exception as e:
         logger.error(f"Exception downloading mpta file from {url}: {str(e)}", exc_info=True)
         return None
-    finally:
-        # Clean up session resources
-        try:
-            if 'session' in locals():
-                session.close()
-        except:
-            pass
 
 # Add helper to fetch snapshot image from HTTP/HTTPS URL
 def fetch_snapshot(url: str):