[Distutils] pypi.python Error 403 Forbidden

[Heiko L.]

hallo,

I try to install a software from pypi.python.org and receive following errmsg:
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

and

$ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 SSL is required


After a few hours I found the following article:
 https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2017-October/031712.html
  ...you can no longer access /simple/ and /packages/ over HTTP and you will have to directly go to HTTPS....

- It is true?
- Is this the right place if I have any questions?


regards Heiko