[Distutils] [buildout/easyinstall] downloading from a url

[P.J. Eby]

At 01:05 PM 6/1/2010 +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>We have a collection of private eggs served from a simple folder 
>served up by Apache.
>
>The following works fine to get these eggs via buildout:
>
>[buildout]
>find-links = http://username:password@server/eggs-index/
>
>However, the following does not find the eggs:
>
>bin/easy_install 
>--find-links=http://username:password@server/eggs-index/ eggname
>
>However, if I mount up the folder served by apache and do:
>
>bin/easy_install --find-links=/mnt/path/to/eggs-index/ eggname
>
>...it works fine.
>
>bin/easy_install 
>--find-links=http://username:password@server/eggs-index/eggname-version.tar.gz
>
>...bombs out complaining that authorization is required.
>
>So, how come the behaviour of all of these is different?

I can't speak to the buildout part, but if you can do an 
'easy_install -vvn ...' with the others, I'd like to see what it's doing.