[Distutils] setuptools http auth

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:56 AM 6/29/2007 -0700, Matt.Callaghan at cbsa-asfc.gc.ca wrote:
>Hello Phillip;
>
>as per the following discusison:
>http://www.nabble.com/setuptools-http-auth-t3629554.html
>
>Did you ever implement the more complete update?
>
>I'm using:
>http_proxy=http://username:password@my_proxy:port_number
>
>When I try
>~> sudo easy_install Pexpect
>root's password: *******
>Searching for Pexpect
>Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Pexpect/
>error: Download error: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
>
>I believe this is the same issue as discussed in the above thread.
>
>Could you please let me know if this has been fixed?  Thanks so much

The HTML-encoding issue was fixed in 0.6c6, as far as I know.