openai.BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - Timeout while downloading

[joprr12]

This error has been occurring since 2025.03.13 23:00:00. My code and environment have not changed.

openai.BadRequestError: Error code: 400 - {‘error’: {‘message’: ‘Timeout while downloading …’, ‘type’: ‘invalid_request_error’, ‘param’: None, ‘code’: ‘invalid_image_url’}}

[Diet]

Welcome to the community!

This seems to be an ongoing intermittent issue at the moment.

Here’s another thread dealing with this:

API ISSUE: "Responses" endpoint: using vision with user image is only errors

In a recent task, I had to switch from Responses to Chat Completions in the playground (which works on the same context). [The image shows a user feedback message about an error in a "rated supply voltage" box, followed by an error notification asking to retry or contact support with a request ID. (Captioned by AI)] A user input message with an image, or “additional messages” with an image added (depicted), results in an error, replicated by sending the same to either “gpt-4.5-preview” or “gp…

Here’s another user dealing with this:

What's going on with gpt4o today?

We’re getting the same issues too in relation to API calls… We’re using images and its throwing 400 Timeout errors. It was working yesterday? { "error": "400 Timeout while downloading https://[REDACTED]/[URL]/image/.....imagetokenhere.......?token=[REDACTED]." }

When dealing with vision, I would generally recommend uploading images with b64 encoding instead of a link, to prevent possible network issues such as this.