# Getting sslcertverificationerror exception

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/getting-sslcertverificationerror-exception/105568>\
**Category:** 🤗Transformers\
**Created:** [September 6, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/getting-sslcertverificationerror-exception/105568 "2024-09-06T06:23:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/getting-sslcertverificationerror-exception/105568/1 "2024-09-06T06:23:08Z")

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am trying to connect to the distilbert uncase model for my chatbot development using the transformers library. But when i tried to connect from Python, am getting the error  
RemoteConnection aborted. "urllib3.exceptions.maxretryerror:httpconnectionpool([host=huggingface.co](http://host=huggingface.co), port=443)  
max retries exceeded with url: …/tokenizer\_config.json caused by sslerror / sslcertverificationerror  
certificateverify failed:self-signed-certificate