DeDeus
February 8, 2026, 2:25pm
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Today (Feb 8, 2026) I started seeing intermittent failures while using Codex in ChatGPT. The response streaming stops before completion with this error:
stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses)
It happens across repeated attempts and prevents completions from finishing. Is anyone else seeing this today, and are there any known workarounds?
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EricGT
February 8, 2026, 4:09pm
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Welcome to the forum!
This looks like a longstanding open issue.
It has been reported on the official Codex issues on GitHub.
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/3355
opened 06:09AM - 09 Sep 25 UTC
bug
agent
### What version of Codex is running?
codex-cli 0.30.0
### Which model were yo… u using?
gpt-5 high
### What platform is your computer?
Darwin 24.4.0 arm64 arm
### What steps can reproduce the bug?
Get codex working on a task that requires more than 30 seconds to finish. Close the lid of the Macbook Pro and take the laptop with you so that it looses connection to the wifi.
### What is the expected behavior?
Expected behavior is that Codex detects that the Macbook Pro is attempting to sleep and waits to retry until the macbook is awake and the network is re-connected.
Alternatively, ask the user if it should retry.
### What do you see instead?
```
⚠️ stream error: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses); retrying 1/5 in 182ms…
⚠️ stream error: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses); retrying 2/5 in 374ms…
⚠️ stream error: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses); retrying 3/5 in 863ms…
⚠️ stream error: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses); retrying 4/5 in 1.691s…
⚠️ stream error: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses); retrying 5/5 in 3.471s…
🖐 error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses)
```
### Additional information
This happens when the lid of the Macbook is closed and the laptop promptly moved out of range of the wifi connection.
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