> On Jul 25, 2017, at 2:15 PM, Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, July 25, 2017, Alexander Belopolsky 
> <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Nick Timkovich <prometheus...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> ..
> > That's because curl is kinda annoying and doesn't follow redirects by
> > default:
> >
> > $ curl -i http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv/json
> > HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
> > ...
> 
> Well, http://pypi.org/.. which is presumably the home of the latest
> PyPI returns 403:
> 
> $ curl -i http://pypi.org/pypi/virtualenv/json
> HTTP/1.1 403 SSL is required
> ...
> 
> This suggests that redirects are considered to be legacy and may not
> be supported in the future.
> 
> Here are the warehouse routes:
> https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/blob/master/warehouse/routes.py
> 
> Why do you need an http to https redirect?

To explain this: pypi.org is on the HSTS preload list so all major browsers 
will automatically use HTTPS for it no matter what. cURL does not support this 
feature.

--Noah


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