[Distutils] pypi.python.org forces SSL?

[Paul Sokolovsky]

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 at gmail.com