getting a package with --allow-all-external --allow-unverified doesn't work behind a proxy

[ispmarin]

I'm trying to install basemap with

pip install --proxy http://proxy.corp.com:8080 --allow-all-external basemap --allow-unverified basemap

but no luck:

Downloading/unpacking basemap
  basemap an externally hosted file and may be unreliable
  basemap is potentially insecure and unverifiable.
Cleaning up...
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/mobilidade/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/mobilidade/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 278, in run
    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/mobilidade/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 1197, in prepare_files
    do_download,
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/mobilidade/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 1375, in unpack_url
    self.session,
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/mobilidade/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/download.py", line 546, in unpack_http_url
    resp = session.get(target_url, stream=True)
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/mobilidade/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 395, in get
    return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/mobilidade/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/download.py", line 237, in request
    return super(PipSession, self).request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/mobilidade/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 383, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/mobilidade/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 486, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/mobilidade/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/adapters.py", line 387, in send
    raise Timeout(e)
Timeout: (<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f61e6a408d0>, 'Connection to downloads.sourceforge.net timed out. (connect timeout=15)')

Storing debug log for failure in /home/user/.pip/pip.log

pip works fine without allow-unverified and allow-external on the same proxy.

Cheers

[xavfernandez]

PEP470 was approved, the emails were now sent more than 3 months ago and PyPI only shows /simple/ index (since https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/commits/84171443421316088f1a9492bbf48402f8947e99) so --allow-external and --allow-unverified are now useless on pypi.python.org. They will be deprecated in pip 8.

This plus the fact you found a workaround (according to matplotlib/matplotlib#5655), so I'm closing this one as "won't fix".