Working on Debian 7.11 for RPI, I came across this bug with pip-3.2. I tracked it down to the dowload.py module from pip that instantiate an HTTP transport by default.
Later on, this default transport will make it to the client, which will inspect the URL to determine what type of transport to allocate, but since one is already passed down, it will not reallocate it. So one workaround here is to add "transport=None" just before the check to force it to reallocate it. Another work around could be to allocate a SafeTransport by default (that's how I fix my system ). In the first workaround, it's required to also update the default URL in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/commands/search.py from "http://..."; to "https://..."; =============== /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip/download.py ---> xmlrpclib_transport = xmlrpclib.SafeTransport() /usr/lib/python3.2/xmlrpc/client.py def __init__(self, uri, transport=None, encoding=None, verbose=False, allow_none=False, use_datetime=False): # establish a "logical" server connection # get the url ---> transport=None print("2>",uri) import urllib.parse type, uri = urllib.parse.splittype(uri) print("1>",uri,type) if type not in ("http", "https"): raise IOError("unsupported XML-RPC protocol") self.__host, self.__handler = urllib.parse.splithost(uri) if not self.__handler: self.__handler = "/RPC2" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643164 Title: ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for pypi.python.org/pypi: 403 Must access using HTTPS instead of HTTP> To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pip/+bug/1643164/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
