# Git clone often gives 403 or 429 errors **URL:** \ **Category:** Beginners\ **Created:** [March 6, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/git-clone-often-gives-403-or-429-errors/144510 "2025-03-06T20:24:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/git-clone-often-gives-403-or-429-errors/144510/2 "2025-03-06T22:20:36Z")
SSL configuration errors and token configuration errors are common causes. Also, in Windows environments, it is easier to stabilize git-lfs as well as git by reinstalling them using the installer. The default ones are kind of old. > [@Connection Error when Accessing Dataset URL on Hugging Face](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/connection-error-when-accessing-dataset-url-on-hugging-face/67418): > > I am currently experiencing an issue while trying to access my private dataset in my repo for example: ([https://huggingface.co/dataset/Mustafa21/dataset](https://huggingface.co/dataset/Mustafa21/dataset)) The error message I encountered is as follows: ionError(f"Couldn't reach {url} ({repr(head\_error)})") ConnectionError: Couldn't reach https://huggingface.co/datasets/Mustafa21/dataset/resolve/main/dataset\_infos.json (ConnectionError('Unauthorized for URL https://huggingface.co/datasets/Mustafa21/dataset/resolve/main/dataset\_infos.json. Pleas… > [@Error 403! What to do about it?](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/error-403-what-to-do-about-it/12983): > > I can not save the model, it gives HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: [https://huggingface.co/api/repos/create](https://huggingface.co/api/repos/create) - You don’t have the rights to create a model under this namespace how to fix? --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/git-clone-often-gives-403-or-429-errors/144510)._