Unable to install python33 from RHSCL through proxy

Issue

• Unable to install python33 from RHSCL through proxy
• RHSCL python33-python-setuptools not being able to download anything from pypi.python.org since later became https-only.
• Python33-python-setuptools (easy_install) from RHSCL does not allow downloads of any pypi packages via proxy.
• Steps to reproduce:

$ alias px='http_proxy=u:p@host:port/ https_proxy...'
$ export PYTHONPATH=~/pylib
$ px easy_install -d $PYTHONPATH requests
Creating /home/NET1/user/pylib/site.py
Searching for requests
Best match: requests 1.1.0
Adding requests 1.1.0 to easy-install.pth file

Using /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
Processing dependencies for requests
Finished processing dependencies for requests
$ rm -rf pylib/*
$ scl enable python27 bash
$ px easy_install -d $PYTHONPATH requests
Searching for requests
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/requests/
Best match: requests 2.5.0
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/requests/requests-2.5.0.tar.gz#md5=b8bf3ddca75e7ecf1b6776da1e6e3385
Processing requests-2.5.0.tar.gz
Writing /tmp/easy_install-m5kG1Q/requests-2.5.0/setup.cfg
Running requests-2.5.0/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-m5kG1Q/requests-2.5.0/egg-dist-tmp-VQScVv
Adding requests 2.5.0 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /home/NET1/user/pylib/requests-2.5.0-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for requests
Finished processing dependencies for requests
$ exit
$ scl enable python33 bash
$ px easy_install -d $PYTHONPATH requests
Creating /home/NET1/user/pylib/site.py
Searching for requests
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/requests/
Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/requests/: [SSL: UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL] unknown protocol (_ssl.c:547) -- Some packages may not be found!
Couldn't find index page for 'requests' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/
Download error on https://pypi.python.org/simple/: [SSL: UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL] unknown protocol (_ssl.c:547) -- Some packages may not be found!
No local packages or download links found for requests
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('requests')
$exit