how to specify trusted hosts in windows config file

[dcwhatthe at gmail.com]

On Monday, March 30, 2020 at 2:49:55 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 5:46 AM dc wrote:
> >
> > These are some of the command lines I've typed, and the results.  It looks like it's going to https://pypi.org.
> >
> > I have no idea whether that's correct, or not.
> >
> > I'm able to get past the Certificate error with other packages like requests.  But I just can't update pip.
> >
> 
> That is the correct domain name. The question is, does it translate to
> the correct IP address? Try doing a DNS lookup and compare it to the
> results I got.
> 
> And, don't think in terms of *getting past the error*. Try to solve
> the actual problem. The certificate error is protecting you against
> installing a forged version of PIP.
> 
> ChrisA

For pypi.org alone, my dns lookup differs from yours:  151.101.128.223.

Chris,

Is there a way to just install pip manually, and bypass all this?  I mean, if we know we're downloading it from the appropriate ftp or git site, then doesn't that in itself avoid a faulty PIP version?