Got Warning In Flask API while hitting OpenAI ChatGPT API: "Resource Warning: Unclosed ssl.SSLSocket

So i’ve been doing some works to build a REST API with Flask including an API to hit OpenAI ChatGPT Completion API to generate a response for Chatbot use-case.

Whenever my API received a request from client/users. This Warning always raised in the log:

[13/Apr/2023 10:30:42] "POST /chatbot HTTP/1.1" 200 -
sys:1: ResourceWarning: unclosed <ssl.SSLSocket fd=10, family=AddressFamily.AF_INET, type=SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM, proto=6, laddr=('192.168.4.210', 39590), raddr=('104.18.6.192', 443)>

Does anyone have experienced the same thing? or is this normal, something that we can ignore? I would be really grateful if someone actually had an idea of how to handle this kind of warning and perhaps share the solution

Thank you in advance

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I’m having the same issue, specifically when I run PyTest. It’s the same remote IP address too, and that IP address is definitely OpenAI’s, so this is definitely an issue with OpenAI. I’m using the embedding model, so I don’t think it’s specific to the completions API.

Hi and welcome to the developer forum!

OpenAI already has a complete python library to handle these events, the work of debugging connection issues had already been done, if you wish to do it as a technical exercise, that’s great, but you should know you don’t have to. Just import OpenAI after pip3 install openai

I can’t speak to the original poster, but I have been using the openai library, not a pure REST API, so I believe this is still an issue.

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You’re getting the unclosed resource warning or something else?

That’s correct - I’m getting pretty much the identical warning as the original poster, though I am using the openai Python SDK for embeddings. I only get the warning, however, when I’m running unit tests with PyTest.

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I’m getting same warning when running concurrently inside a concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor.

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Same error, though the error comes from flask_oidc

flask_oidc/init.py:892

As a general note on this, it is not an “error” it is a warning that concurrent connections are open, this can happen as part of normal usage.