Getting error 403 while installing package with pip

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getting an error while installing google app engine using 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

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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/`

Asked By: Keshaw_pathak

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Answer 1

It’s because PyPI has disabled non HTTPS access to APIs

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

as workaround you can use

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

Answered By: ALex_hha

Answer 2

Got the error.
The problem was with the repo from where pip was trying to install the package.

Answered By: Keshaw_pathak

Answer 3

Unfortunately none of the previous answers work for me.

IMHO it was very stupid pip / distutils chose to break packages on http repos.

I think a better choice would have been:

pip/distutils use https by default
in case of error, like 403, pip has to suggest you “the package repo is on http, do you want to download it?”

Still in 2020 many Python 2 packages are on http repos; with their decision, the installation of these packages is broken.

The working solution for me is a very simple patch of one python core modules:

--- /usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py.original
+++ /usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py
@@ -427,6 +427,9 @@
             req = meth(req)

         response = self._open(req, data)
+        if protocol == "http" and response.code == 403 :
+            if isinstance(fullurl, basestring) and fullurl.startswith("http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/") :
+                return    self.open(fullurl.replace("http://", "https://"), data = data, timeout = timeout)

         # post-process response
         meth_name = protocol+"_response"

Working: if the failed url is on http, retry on https.

I know it is a little ugly, but it is very clear and also you can revert to the original module in a snap (make a copy of /usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py before to apply this patch).

Answered By: Massimo

Answer 4

The only solution that worked for me was using easy_install instead of pip

Answered By: user2555515

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