I’m currently trying to clone a repository from a gitlab instance that doesn’t use SSL using a project access token with Maintainer permissions. The command I’m trying to run can be abstracted to the following:

git clone http://<random_string>:<project_token>@gitlabhost.com/path/to/repo.git -b <branch> --progress

I’ve already disabled SSL verification with git --global config http.sslVerify false just to get that out of the way.

However, the error I get, regardless of what I set random_string to be, is:

remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied

I’ve tried regenerating the project access token multiple times and I’ve tried downgrading the permissions of the project token to “Developer”, but neither have resulted in a successful clone.

If it has any relevance, I’ve had success in cloning a repository using a project token from a gitlab instance that does use SSL, so is the fact that there’s no SSL verification at all a factor here, or is there another issue?