[Catalog-sig] PyPI ssh access

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> I have now set up SSH access for PyPI.

Could you please summarize why SSH access to PyPI may be a
useful feature to have and what the intended use is ?

> The procedure works like this:
> 
> 1. upload your SSH key(s) to your PyPI account.
> 2. Connect using 'ssh -T submit at pypi.python.org', and send a single HTTP
>    request. PyPI will associate the request with the respective PyPI
>    account.
> 
> I have yet to figure out why Connection: keep-alive doesn't work (i.e.
> you need to reconnect for every request).
> 
> Apart from that, please try this out and report your findings; I'm
> sure patches to distutils/distribute are welcome.
> 
> If you find bugs, please report them to the PyPI bugtracker.

Thanks,
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