We are currently facing an issue due to our internal network restrictions, where access to the domain huggingface.co is not allowed. As a result, we are encountering the following error:
OSError: We couldn’t connect to ‘https://huggingface.co’ to load the files, and couldn’t find them in the cached files.
Our firewall does not support filtering by HTTP method, so when whitelisting a domain, we must ensure that only GET requests are used and that no POST or data-submitting operations occur.
Please note that we do not intend to use the Hugging Face Inference API.
Therefore, we would like to ask:
Is there any official documentation or confirmation from Hugging Face support that we can use to explain to our network administrators that all operations to huggingface. co (such as model downloads) are performed only via GET requests, and that no POST or data submission occurs?
The model we intend to use is:
intfloat/multilingual-e5-large
We would greatly appreciate your support and any confirmation you can provide.
Thank you very much.