Creating gist failed: 403 Forbidden

Question

This is the error message I am receiving when trying to create a new gist.

Creating gist failed: 403 Forbidden

I have set up GITHUB_USER and GITHUB_PASSWORD as suggested and have tried setting up the environment variable HTTP_PROXY but then I receive this error:

System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/generic.rb:195:in initialize': the scheme http does not accept registry part: host:port (or bad hostname?) (URI::InvalidURIError) from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/http.rb:78:ininitialize' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:488:in new' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:488:inparse' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/uri/common.rb:608:in `URI' from /usr/local/bin/gist:1130

Can't seem to find any support to do with either error!

Answer 1

There might be many reasons to get 403 response from Github, in both existed tools or your own code, for example:

• User-Agent is not set in the API requests (http://developer.github.com/changes/2013-04-24-user-agent-required)
• You (code or tool) exceed API requests limits (not sure it's your case however as usually limits are high enough)