# urlopen error Tunnel connection failed: 403 Forbidden

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/urlopen-error-tunnel-connection-failed-403-forbidden/34665>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 22, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/urlopen-error-tunnel-connection-failed-403-forbidden/34665 "2021-02-22T09:21:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Devops\_testing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Devops\_testing](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Devops_testing)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/urlopen-error-tunnel-connection-failed-403-forbidden/34665/1 "2021-02-22T09:21:59Z")

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Hello Experts,

I have playbook which works fine since 6 months. It’s started throwing tunnel connection failed, since yesterday morning. However the curl works fine. Can someone let me know if this is a bug or any other ways to bypass proxy?

curl -I [https://10.97.7.198](https://10.97.7.198) -k  
HTTP/1.1 200 OK  
Server: Apache  
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN  
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=16070400; includeSubDomains  
Last-Modified: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:20:20 GMT  
ETag: “fa1-5bb866788fb67”  
Accept-Ranges: bytes  
Content-Length: 4001

- hosts: f5  
environment:  
no\_proxy: ‘10.97.7.198,10.97.7.199’  
gather\_facts: true  
connection: local

tasks:

- name: Grab Credentials  
include\_vars: secrets.yml  
no\_log: true

- name: Collect BIG-IP facts  
bigip\_command:  
provider: “{{ f5\_provider }}”  
commands: ‘tmsh show sys failover’  
register: failover\_state

Regards,  
Sri