Default index URL to use SSL version of PyPI

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/setuptools/command/easy_install.py b/setuptools/command/easy_install.py
index 90f29320..71794865 100755
--- a/setuptools/command/easy_install.py
+++ b/setuptools/command/easy_install.py
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ class easy_install(Command):
                 else:
                     self.all_site_dirs.append(normalize_path(d))
         if not self.editable: self.check_site_dir()
-        self.index_url = self.index_url or "http://pypi.python.org/simple"
+        self.index_url = self.index_url or "https://pypi.python.org/simple"
         self.shadow_path = self.all_site_dirs[:]
         for path_item in self.install_dir, normalize_path(self.script_dir):
             if path_item not in self.shadow_path:
diff --git a/setuptools/package_index.py b/setuptools/package_index.py
index 9a9c5d62..1668e765 100755
--- a/setuptools/package_index.py
+++ b/setuptools/package_index.py
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ user_agent = "Python-urllib/%s setuptools/%s" % (
 class PackageIndex(Environment):
     """A distribution index that scans web pages for download URLs"""
 
-    def __init__(self, index_url="http://pypi.python.org/simple", hosts=('*',),
+    def __init__(self, index_url="https://pypi.python.org/simple", hosts=('*',),
         *args, **kw
     ):
         Environment.__init__(self,*args,**kw)