[Distutils] pypi.python.org forces SSL?

Hello, I see that nowadays trying to access http://pypi.python.org (including any URL beneath it) unconditionally redirects to https://pypi.python.org. I'm trying to access it using system which doesn't have SSL support and cannot easily have (embedded, size constraints). Is there any way to access PyPI metadata/tarballs using plain HTTP? Thanks, Paul mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com