[Proposal] [WIP] Improve multi-URL priorization #1165
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Our work toward implementing ContentSteering (#1142) also brought as a side-effect a better CDN priorization algorithm, when multiple ones are available for a segment:
A request returning with an error will result with the corresponding CDN being temporarily "downgraded" for 60 seconds. The corresponding CDN would then be avoided when possible for this amount of time, regardless of the resource in question.
This seems to be very useful for all cases where multiple CDNs are available and not just when relying on Content Steering - which still seems to be in a draft phase. Consequently this PR removes all ContentSteering-related bits from that previous PR (it may be merged in the future) to only let the code: