Documentation contains an obsolete link

[exhuma]

I'm currently following the packaging guide, and the section about creating an account contains an obsolete link about to upload packages.

It says to use: repository = https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/, but when I use this, and then run twing register my_package.whl, I get the following error:

Registering package to https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
Enter your password:
Registering puresnmp-1.0.0b1-py3-none-any.whl
HTTPError: 410 Client Error: This API is no longer supported, instead simply upload the file. for url: https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/

Removing the line from .pypirc makes it work!

[zirpu]

I'm using twine 1.8.1, and it still tries to use the upload.pypi.org/legacy/ url, even w/o the repository setting in .pypirc.

trying to do this:

twine upload --repository-url https://bogus.com  dist/*

still results in:

HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Invalid or non-existent authentication information. for url: https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/

[sigmavirus24]

@zirpu you're running into #206. --repository-url was poorly implemented in buggy. I also won't be able to fix it by myself anytime soon (c.f. https://twitter.com/sigmavirus24/status/781851776655892480)

[brainwane]

I'm on Twine 1.9.1 and the behavior is different from what @zirpu experienced but still probably suboptimal:

$ twine upload --repository-url https://example.com  dist/*
Uploading distributions to https://example.com
Enter your username: bfhs
Enter your password: 
Uploading Forms990_analysis-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
Uploading Forms990-analysis-1.0.0.tar.gz 
$

(I typed in some nonsense for username and password.)

My package does not seem to be up at pypi.org, test.pypi.org, or pypi.python.org; I don't understand what twine did here.

[di]

@brainwane Assuming you actually used https://example.com, this is a real domain which will accept just about anything you send to it:

$ http POST example.com launchBallisticMissiles:true --headers
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...

So presumably twine got a 200 OK for your distribution upload, and as far as it knows, it succeeded.

[brainwane]

(I knew example.com was a real domain but I did not realize that it would actually give 200 OK to everything like that. Thanks for the wake-up call @di!)

I run brainwane.net and know it is not a package index :) so I tested with that:

$ twine upload --repository-url https://brainwane.net  dist/*Uploading distributions to https://brainwane.net
Enter your username: brainwane
Enter your password: 
Uploading Forms990_analysis-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='brainwane.net', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by SSLError(CertificateError("hostname 'brainwane.net' doesn't match either of '*.bizland.com', 'bizland.com'",),))

Given that the documentation is now accurate and Twine doesn't have the issue @zirpu mentioned anymore, I think we can close this issue.