# 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:** 7
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For a moment I thought it might be a Windows git problem, but if it’s happening with curl, it’s a different error that’s unrelated… Hmm, I wonder if something is being blocked in the connection path… > [@Proxy Issues While Accessing Hugging Face](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/proxy-issues-while-accessing-hugging-face/100169): > > Hello, I’m experiencing issues while trying to access Hugging Face from my institute’s network. Here are the details of my problem: Error Message ProxyError: (MaxRetryError(“HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘[huggingface.co](http://huggingface.co)’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/whoami-v2 (Caused by ProxyError(‘Cannot connect to proxy.’, OSError(‘Tunnel connection failed: 403 Forbidden’)))”)) Steps Taken: Checked and unset the proxy variables. Changed the token key and tried to connect. Attempted to conne… > [@403 Client Error: Forbidden for url](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/403-client-error-forbidden-for-url/12563/16): > > I’m kicking off the batch job from a sagemaker notebook instance, but the batch job runs in sagemaker. It still fails with 403. I tried it from a different aws account with the same results. More detail in this thread [Error 403 when downloading model for Sagemaker batch inference - #6 by philschmid](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/error-403-when-downloading-model-for-sagemaker-batch-inference/12571/6) ### For Windows users > **[Git - Install for Windows](https://git-scm.com/downloads/win)** > **[Git Large File Storage](https://git-lfs.com/)** > > Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/git-clone-often-gives-403-or-429-errors/144510)._