[Distutils] pypi.python.org forces SSL?

[Donald Stufft]

> On Nov 8, 2014, at 4:04 PM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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? 

No, there are no URLs on PyPI which support being accessed by anything
other than via TLS.

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Donald Stufft
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