Cannot use basic auth over HTTPS

[ghost]

• Pip version: 8.1.2
• Python version: 2.6.6
• Operating System: RHEL6

Description:

Pip fails to authenticated with local repo using basic auth and HTTPS. Rather than using the username/password in the URL, prompts for username instead.

According to (closed) issue #51, it may be due to the password not being URLencoded but haven't confirmed if is the case.

What I've run:

pip install blah -f 'https://:@my.local.repo/pypi'

Please fix ASAP.

[pombredanne]

Could you provide more details, such as a stack/error trace? This is rather hard to investigate otherwise.
Note also that Python 2.6 support may eventually be dropped per #3955

[ghost]

I was able to confirm it was a problem with funny characters in the password. I temporarily changed to a different password and it works for now. Something funky going on with escaping the password...dont know if 2.6 specific or not.

[willdrew]

It is not specific to Python 2.6.

I was unable to authenticate using HTTPS with the password having # in it, attempted to escape using %23, but that did not work (prompted for password). I ended up changing password to alphanumeric only and it worked.

$ pip --version
pip 8.1.2 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

$ python --version
Python 2.7.11+

[xavfernandez]

Ok, closing as duplicate of #3236