ez_setup.py fails because of insecure SSL connection

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Originally reported by: chris_zen (Bitbucket: chris_zen, GitHub: Unknown)

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When running

#!bash
$ python ez_setup.py 

I get the following error:

Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-1.3.2.tar.gz
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ez_setup.py", line 382, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "ez_setup.py", line 378, in main
    downloader_factory=options.downloader_factory)
  File "ez_setup.py", line 290, in download_setuptools
    downloader(url, saveto)
  File "ez_setup.py", line 215, in download_file_wget
    _clean_check(cmd, target)
  File "ez_setup.py", line 160, in _clean_check
    subprocess.check_call(cmd)
  File "/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 540, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['wget', 'https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-1.3.2.tar.gz', '--quiet', '--output-document', '/home/bgadmin/setuptools-1.3.2.tar.gz']' returned non-zero exit status 1

If I try the wget command by myself:

#!bash
$ wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-1.3.2.tar.gz

--2013-11-14 16:33:18--  https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-1.3.2.tar.gz
Resolving pypi.python.org... 185.31.16.185, 185.31.16.184
Connecting to pypi.python.org|185.31.16.185|:443... connected.
ERROR: certificate common name `*.a.ssl.fastly.net' doesn't match requested host name `pypi.python.org'.
To connect to pypi.python.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
Unable to establish SSL connection.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/106

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

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Duplicate of #75.

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

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Please report and elaborate if the --insecure option doesn't suit your needs.

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

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Sorry for the duplicate, I didn't see it, --insecure is perfect. I would like to suggest you to put a note on this in the README.txt. Thank you very much.