Anyone else seeing internet access when loading SD3 models (only)?

[CalculonPrime]

I can start the Web UI and it works fine with no internet loading SD 1.5 and SDXL models, but for some reason when I load an SD3 model, there's an attempted internet access from python. if I allow it through with my interactive firewall, it still happens next time I restart the Web UI and load another SD3 model, so it's not just updating something. It's a persistent request on each load. How do I disable this?

The URL is hitting huggingface.co, but I don't know the path even though I captured logs with wireshark because it's https. It will take more work to get the path. I thought the problem might be that I need a newer transformers, so I bumped the required version in the config file, but I still see the internet access attempt even with the newest transformers.

Should I file an issue to get this resolved?

[w-e-w]

possible patch

• option: reduce connecting to huggingface #16298

[CalculonPrime]

I tried git pulling to get this but it's not on mainline yet so I guess I'll have to wait.

[w-e-w]

as in you don't know what command run or something?
did you try this

git fetch
git switch option-reduce-connecting-to-huggingface

git pull will work but this will also update the current branch if available

switch back to master run

git switch master

[w-e-w]

and like I mentioned in the PR
you could also set the environment variable TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE to 1
if you are on windows using webui-user.bat add

set TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1

if on linux in webui-user.sh add

export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1

but using TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE also comes with the downsides I mentioned