# asticsearch.hadoop.rest.EsHadoopInvalidRequest: \[HEAD\] 403
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/asticsearch-hadoop-rest-eshadoopinvalidrequest-head-403/111885
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 15, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/asticsearch-hadoop-rest-eshadoopinvalidrequest-head-403/111885 "2017-12-15T02:09:59Z")
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### Author:  [@kibitayo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kibitayo)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/asticsearch-hadoop-rest-eshadoopinvalidrequest-head-403/111885/1 "2017-12-15T02:09:59Z")
Attempt to push data to elasticsearch from spark results is 403 when an attempt is made to check if an index exists
at org.elasticsearch.hadoop.rest.RestClient.checkResponse(RestClient.java:510)
at org.elasticsearch.hadoop.rest.RestClient.executeNotFoundAllowed(RestClient.java:481)
at org.elasticsearch.hadoop.rest.RestClient.exists(RestClient.java:570)
at org.elasticsearch.hadoop.rest.RestClient.indexExists(RestClient.java:565)
at org.elasticsearch.hadoop.rest.RestClient.touch(RestClient.java:576)
at org.elasticsearch.hadoop.rest.RestRepository.touch(RestRepository.java:444)
at org.elasticsearch.hadoop.rest.RestService.initSingleIndex(RestService.java:612)
at org.elasticsearch.hadoop.rest.RestService.createWriter(RestService.java:600)
at org.elasticsearch.spark.rdd.EsRDDWriter.write(EsRDDWriter.scala:58)
at org.elasticsearch.spark.rdd.EsSpark$$anonfun$doSaveToEs$1.apply(EsSpark.scala:107)
at org.elasticsearch.spark.rdd.EsSpark$$anonfun$doSaveToEs$1.apply(EsSpark.scala:107)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:87)
at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:108)
at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:349)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/asticsearch-hadoop-rest-eshadoopinvalidrequest-head-403/111885/2 "2018-01-12T02:10:33Z")
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