title: Issue with easy_install-2.7
body: <p>After installing easy_install and trying to use it to then install a python package it fails.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[root@server]# easy_install-2.7 pip
  Searching for pip
  Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
  Download error on http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/: unknown url type: https -- Some packages may not be found!
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I seem to get a redirect </p>
  
  <pre><code>curl -IL http://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
  HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
  Retry-After: 0
  Location: https://pypi.python.org/simple/pip/
  Content-Length: 0
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:28:40 GMT
  Age: 0
  Connection: close
  
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:28:40 GMT
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
  X-PYPI-LAST-SERIAL: 835141
  Cache-Control: max-age=86400, public
  Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
  Content-Length: 3933
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Age: 78434
  Vary: Accept-Encoding
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas ?</p>