Intermittent failures downloading ez_setup.py (bootstrap)

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Originally reported by: Anonymous

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The server gives "Rate limit for this resource has been exceeded"

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/192

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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That's a real shame. Sounds as if we may have to work with Atlassian to exempt this resource or host it behind a CDN. Of course, hosting behind a CDN means issues with cache invalidation.

I'll have to think about this more.

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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By the way, I expect the error message to be intermittent as the rate drops again.

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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@dstufft Do we have any options with fastly to serve the ez_setup.py bootstrap script?

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Original comment by dstufft (Bitbucket: dstufft, GitHub: dstufft):

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Sure, it'll have to be behind a *.python.org domain somewhere though, or a *.ssl.a.fastly.net domain name in order to get TLS.

Another option is to see about getting *.pypa.io behind Fastly and host them there.

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Original comment by snapetom (Bitbucket: snapetom, GitHub: Unknown):

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Hello, has there been any work around for this issue?

Fabtools uses a hardcoded URL (https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py) to download ez_setup.py. Since Atlassian is throttling it, it's breaking the install.

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Original comment by richbodo (Bitbucket: richbodo, GitHub: richbodo):

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FYI. It's still an issue.

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Original comment by dstufft (Bitbucket: dstufft, GitHub: dstufft):

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This is in progress to be fixed. I have it setup behind a CDN at http://bootstrap.pypa.io/ but we're waiting on the provider to issue an certificate so it can be moved behind TLS.

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Original comment by dstufft (Bitbucket: dstufft, GitHub: dstufft):

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TLS deployed, you can now use https://bootstrap.pypa.io/

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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Updated references to bootstrap module to use new bootstrap.pypa.io locations. Fixes #192.