# Unable to forward request for with-db transaction

**URL:** https://forum.datomic.com/t/unable-to-forward-request-for-with-db-transaction/943
**Category:** Troubleshooting
**Created:** [April 20, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/unable-to-forward-request-for-with-db-transaction/943 "2019-04-20T09:13:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![sooheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@sooheon](https://forum.datomic.com/u/sooheon)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2019, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/unable-to-forward-request-for-with-db-transaction/943/1 "2019-04-20T09:13:44Z")

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I was getting unavailable anomalies like the following adding some fixtures to the DB, so tried testing with `with-db`.

```
CompilerException clojure.lang.ExceptionInfo: Unable to forward request 
#:cognitect.anomalies{:category :cognitect.anomalies/unavailable, :message 
"Unable to forward request"}

```

I still get this and an even stranger HTTP connection error (linked below) even for with-db operations, what else could this be caused by?

[https://pastebin.com/raw/Lg54hzF8](https://pastebin.com/raw/Lg54hzF8)

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### Author: ![sooheon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@sooheon](https://forum.datomic.com/u/sooheon)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/unable-to-forward-request-for-with-db-transaction/943/2 "2019-04-20T09:17:14Z")

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Hm, I guess with-db does not mean nothing crosses the wire, since datomic code isn’t on my system I guess it has to run on datomic cloud and just not be persisted, is this correct?

Would still appreciate help understanding the errors – they happen consistently.

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### Author: ![marshall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.datomic.com/marshall/32/48_2.png) [@marshall](https://forum.datomic.com/u/marshall)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/unable-to-forward-request-for-with-db-transaction/943/3 "2019-05-28T15:31:12Z")

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The latest version of Datomic Cloud includes some improvements to network connection handling. Do you still see the same issues when using the latest?

[https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/releases.html#477-8741](https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/releases.html#477-8741)

-Marshall