Hello, Here's my traceback: $ python bootstrap.py --distribute --download-base=https://username:password@pypi.example.com/ Downloading https://username:password@pypi.example.com/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz Traceback (most recent call last): File "bootstrap.py", line 171, in <module> ez['use_setuptools'](**setup_args) File "<string>", line 145, in use_setuptools File "<string>", line 124, in _do_download File "<string>", line 193, in download_setuptools File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 391, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 409, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1178, in https_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1116, in do_open h = http_class(host, timeout=req.timeout) # will parse host:port File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 1105, in __init__ HTTPConnection.__init__(self, host, port, strict, timeout) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 661, in __init__ self._set_hostport(host, port) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 686, in _set_hostport raise InvalidURL("nonnumeric port: '%s'" % host[i+1:]) httplib.InvalidURL: nonnumeric port: 'password@pypi.example.com' Since URLs like "https://username:password@pypi.example.com/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz" seem to be handled well by *urllib*, but not by *urllib2*, I wonder why are they handled by urllib2 instead of urllib. I know it doesn't make sense to put a password on the site that hosts distribute/setuptools, but we have a private PyPI and we'd like to use that as --download-base too. Attila