# Download fails: SSL Error

**URL:** <https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/download-fails-ssl-error/12865>\
**Category:** Software and Tools\
**Tags:** era5\
**Created:** [4 May 2025 20:28 UTC](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/download-fails-ssl-error/12865 "2025-05-04T20:28:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![siri\_young](https://forum.ecmwf.int/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@siri\_young](https://forum.ecmwf.int/u/siri_young)\
**Post date:** [4 May 2025 20:28 UTC](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/download-fails-ssl-error/12865/1 "2025-05-04T20:28:35Z")

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Hello,  
I’m new here and I’m facing problem with downloading ERA5-Land data. when I’m trying to download 2m temperature from 1980s, I can download none of them and it’s just repeating some error like this:  
1980-01: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘cds-beta.climate.copernicus.eu’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/retrieve/v1/processes/reanalysis-era5-single-levels (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, ‘[SSL: CERTIFICATE\_VERIFY\_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate (\_ssl.c:1122)’)))  
1980-02: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘cds-beta.climate.copernicus.eu’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/retrieve/v1/processes/reanalysis-era5-single-levels (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, ‘[SSL: CERTIFICATE\_VERIFY\_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate (\_ssl.c:1122)’)))

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**Author:** ![Kevin\_Marsh](https://forum.ecmwf.int/user_avatar/forum.ecmwf.int/kevin_marsh/32/368_2.png) [@Kevin\_Marsh](https://forum.ecmwf.int/u/Kevin_Marsh)\
**Post date:** [4 May 2025 20:31 UTC](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/download-fails-ssl-error/12865/2 "2025-05-04T20:31:16Z")

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The cds-beta address is no longer in use, see

> [@Goodbye legacy Climate Data Store, Hello New Climate Data Store (CDS)!](https://forum.ecmwf.int/t/goodbye-legacy-climate-data-store-hello-new-climate-data-store-cds/6380/14):
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> Please be aware that as initially published in this topic, the cds-beta URL was planned to be discontinued and users were advised to update the URL in their .cdsapirc file by 20th October 2024. We can confirm that the cds-beta URL is now discontinued. And this explains why some users are getting some SSL: CERTIFICATE\_VERIFY\_FAILED errors. If you have not already done so, please update the URL in your .cdsapirc file as shown below: url: [https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api](https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/api) key: xx-xx-xx-xx-x…