diff -r 6fb2e5fb9082 Lib/distutils/config.py
--- a/Lib/distutils/config.py	Tue May 31 12:15:42 2011 +0200
+++ b/Lib/distutils/config.py	Tue May 31 19:50:48 2011 +0300
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 class PyPIRCCommand(Command):
     """Base command that knows how to handle the .pypirc file
     """
-    DEFAULT_REPOSITORY = 'http://pypi.python.org/pypi'
+    DEFAULT_REPOSITORY = 'https://pypi.python.org/pypi'
     DEFAULT_REALM = 'pypi'
     repository = None
     realm = None