pip connection failure: cannot fetch index base URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/

Question

I run sudo pip install git-review, and get the following messages:

Downloading/unpacking git-review
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Answer 1

I added --proxy command line option to point to the proxy and it's working (pip version is 1.5.4 and python 2.7). for some reason it was not taking the shell env variables HTTPS_PROXY, HTTP_PROXY, https_proxy, http_proxy.

sudo pip --proxy [user:passwd@]proxy.server:port install git-review