Pypi redirect

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Nov 19 05:07:24 PST 2013


On 2013-11-19 23:52 , Peter Danecek wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> if I interpret things correctly, the `http://` requests to PyPi are (now?) redirected to `https://` requests. Not sure if this was always the case, but I have a weak memory, that I was advised to uses `http` instead of `https`, not sure though.
> 
> Now I am wondering if I should update to https, to avoid the redirect.  

Yes, that changed not so long ago. Yes, go ahead and update pypi URLs to
https if you notice them while working on a port. It's not a big problem
so I wouldn't go out of my way to fix it when there are more important
things to do.

- Josh


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