[Distutils] easy_install and https

[Tarek Ziadé]

Hello,

If I do :

$ easy_install -U somepackage

The script will scan the PyPI simple page to look for an egg.

But if it fails on an url page that is starting with https, and if the user
is behind a
proxy that blocks it, it will block there before any egg has a chance to
be downloaded.

I guess a good practice is to avoid https URLs in any metadata,
I guess the user can also call easy_install with the direct egg url in that
case,

but maybe easy_install could do something particular on https links to avoid

this issue, if doable ? Maybe by ordering the reading, to put https ones at
the end ?
(I don't know how https failures works when a proxy blocks them)

Tarek

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