Getting 403 error while installing package with pip

Question

get error message when installing google engine with pip

Collecting google_appengine Downloading google-appengine-1.5.1.tar.gz (897kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 901kB 1.9MB/s Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/private/var/folders/88/5jq5gz011sl63h_37k_qftv40000gn/T/pip-build-vxx8Ov/google-appengine/setup.py", line 3, in <module> ez_setup.use_setuptools() File "/Users/user/path to project/project/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ez_setup.py", line 145, in use_setuptools return _do_download(version, download_base, to_dir, download_delay) File "/Users/user/path to project/project/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ez_setup.py", line 124, in _do_download to_dir, download_delay) File "/Users/user/path to project/project/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ez_setup.py", line 193, in download_setuptools src = urlopen(url) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen return opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 437, in open response = meth(req, response) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 550, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 475, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 558, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: SSL is required ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/88/5jq5gz011sl63h_37k_qftv40000gn/T/pip-build-vxx8Ov/google-appengine/` 

Answer 1

This is because PyPI has disabled API access without HTTPS.

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-October/031712.html

as a workaround you can use

 $ pip install xxxx -i https://pypi.python.org/simple/ 

Answer 2

An error has been received. The problem was the repo where pip was trying to install the package from.