I work inside a secure corporate VPN network, so I’m unable to download Huggingface models using from_pretrained commands. However, I can request the security team to whitelist certain URLs needed for my use-case. The security team has already whitelisted the ‘ huggingface.co ’ and ‘ cdn-lfs.huggingfa…

Note that for security reasons, we recently updated the domain for our CDN; in order to be able to download files you also need to whitelist the following domains: cdn-lfs-us-1.hf.co cdn-lfs-eu-1.hf.co cdn-lfs.hf.co cas-bridge.xethub.hf.co (new as of 02/2025)

Having the same issue. Is there a listing of URLs that we can whitelist? Also if there are any planned changes to URLs is there a roadmap so we can stay on top of it?

I’ll try to supply error logs next time I encounter it, but it has come up multiple times for me as well. When we try to call <model>.from_pretrained("repo") in our DataBricks environment, we get an SSL error about not having the proper certificate. We’ve also gotten a max_retries error but I can’t …

hi! any updates on this? or any alternatives to follow meanwhile? I am about to try downloading a model and going offline and then pushing it up to databricks. Yet, if you had a better idea, or tried this before, I’d like to hear.

I have same issue with download from different cdn name. After our IT team added http://huggingface.co/ and http://cdn-lfs.huggingface.co/ in whitelist. For example, it is work for download meta-llama/Llama-2-13b-chat. But error when the cdn become cdn-lfs-us-1.huggingface.co or other regions. …

Update? Same issue here. I’ve gotten around by using my home network to connect to the hf repo and download to my workstation cache. Then I reconnect to VPN into the corporate network and copy from my workstation to the server cache. This is painfully slow. FWIW curl -IL test shows redirection…

Hey was anyone able to find a solution for this?

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we have created exception for SSL inspection for FQDN listed by pierric plus these 2 ones: [image] Hugging Face – The AI community building the future. We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. …

Hi @pierric has the above list changed since the XetHub announcement ? While downloading, I’m seeing a domain of cas-bridge.xethub.hf.co as well. Is this the only additional domain or are there others?

How to get a list of all Huggingface download redirections to whitelist?

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How to get a list of all Huggingface download redirections to whitelist?

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