Patch for making "pip search" use proxy set via *_proxy environment variables.

pip-search-urllib2

--- /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pip/commands/search.py.orig        2014-04-24 10:31:14.551357257 -0300
+++ /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pip/commands/search.py     2014-04-24 10:57:17.522362125 -0300
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import sys
 import textwrap
+import urllib2

 import pip.download

@@ -12,6 +13,22 @@
 from pip._vendor import pkg_resources
 from distutils.version import StrictVersion, LooseVersion

+def xmlrpclib_ServerProxy(index_url):
+    p = Urllib2Transport()
+    return xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(index_url, transport=p)
+
+
+class Urllib2Transport(xmlrpclib.Transport):
+    SCHEME = 'https'
+    def request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose=0):
+        self.verbose = 0
+        scheme = self.SCHEME
+        url = '%(scheme)s://%(host)s%(handler)s' % locals()
+        req = urllib2.Request(url, data=request_body,
+                              headers={'Content-Type':'text/xml'})
+        fp = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+        return self.parse_response(fp)
+

 class SearchCommand(Command):
     """Search for PyPI packages whose name or summary contains <query>."""
@@ -50,7 +67,7 @@
         return NO_MATCHES_FOUND

     def search(self, query, index_url):
-        pypi = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(index_url)
+        pypi = xmlrpclib_ServerProxy(index_url)
         hits = pypi.search({'name': query, 'summary': query}, 'or')
         return hits

You just saved me man, thanks!