# Git clone often gives 403 or 429 errors

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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](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fproxy-issues-while-accessing-hugging-face%2F100169)%3A
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> 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](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2F403-client-error-forbidden-for-url%2F12563%2F16)%3A
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> 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](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Ferror-403-when-downloading-model-for-sagemaker-batch-inference%2F12571%2F6)

### For Windows users

> **[Git - Install for Windows](https://git-scm.com/downloads/win)**

> **[Git Large File Storage](https://git-lfs.com/)**
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> 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.

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