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Keeps Codex working when the upstream websocket endpoint is unavailable but plain HTTPS to the ChatGPT backend is healthy. Closes #1885.

codex-rs only falls back to HTTP on an HTTP 426 Upgrade Required at handshake. Every in-band error is retried on the websocket, so a websocket-only outage strands the client with no route to a working upstream.

How

  1. Connect-site transport provenance. The direct upstream open stamps host-scoped provenance on the failures that prove the websocket transport itself did not come up — connect timeout, invalid handshake, 5xx upgrade rejection, and connect-phase network errors other than host-wide loss. It withholds that provenance from anything scoped more narrowly: credential-scoped rejections (401/403/429 and any sub-5xx), TLS verification failures, host-wide network loss, and every routed open, which proves only that one account's proxy endpoint is unhealthy. Failures carrying it surface without recording account failure health, so hard-affinity selection stays available for the HTTP retry; everything else keeps the penalized failover path.

    Classification keys on that provenance rather than the sanitized error code, which cannot carry it in either direction: the responses policy preserves the upstream handshake body, so a direct 5xx surfaces as upstream_error or whatever the edge returned, while OAuth refresh transport errors, routed handshakes and TLS failures all share the upstream_unavailable envelope.

  2. 426 handshake denial. That surface, and a request budget exhausted once the direct connector itself has begun, arms a bounded 60s per-instance marker. While it is armed, or while upstream_stream_transport is pinned to http, the responses websocket routes deny handshakes with 426 — the only signal codex-rs accepts for its session-scoped HTTP transport fallback. Arming and clearing are both direct-scoped: a budget that expires in local admission, in route resolution, or in a routed connector does not arm it, and only a successful direct connect clears it. An all-routed deployment therefore never engages the marker, and a mixed one still falls back to the bounded window.

  3. HTTP-path degradation. While armed or pinned, the HTTP responses bridge is bypassed and the raw path's upstream transport is forced to http. A bridge session-creation failure carrying pre-submit provenance and the same transport provenance falls back to raw HTTP streaming and arms the marker — bridge creation runs its own pre-dispatch failover and never reaches the websocket failover decision, so this is the only place bridge-only traffic can arm it. The fallback never replays a post-submit failure, never replays a turn whose continuity anchor only the bridge's prepared payload carries (the raw path injects no response anchor, so the replay would drop prior context), and is skipped while an API-key usage reservation is unsettled.

  4. Replay-safe cooldown fallback. When the bridge retry circuit's pre-dispatch submission gate suppresses a provably-undispatched fresh turn (no continuation identity, no dispatch markers), the cooldown 503 degrades to raw HTTP as well. Ambiguous continuations keep the bounded 503, because a replay could execute the turn twice.

Point 4 was previously a separate stacked PR (#1890). It has been folded in here and that PR closed: it is a 65-line follow-up in the same files, it amends this change's own OpenSpec folder, and it cannot stand alone — cherry-picking it onto main conflicts because this PR is what creates tests/unit/test_websocket_transport_fallback.py and openspec/changes/fall-back-to-http-on-websocket-connect-failure/. Reviewing it separately meant reviewing this diff twice.

Testing

  • Connect-site provenance through the real client conversion, not hand-built envelopes: direct 5xx handshake (surfacing as upstream_error), direct connect timeout, direct credential rejection, direct and routed TLS verification failure, and routed 5xx handshake.
  • Failover decision: provenance-carrying failures surface without penalty and arm the marker; account-scoped, refresh and sub-5xx failures keep the penalized path.
  • Handshake admission: 426 while armed or pinned, normal accept otherwise, marker TTL expiry and clear.
  • Budget exhaustion against the real _open_upstream_websocket: a stalled direct connector arms the marker; local admission and routed connector stalls do not; a direct open success clears it and a routed one does not.
  • Bridge: pinned-http bypass, provenance-classified fallback for a direct 5xx connect code, marker arming, and the negative cases (prepared anchor, routed connect, partial stream, API-key reservation, refresh provenance, non-transient failure).
  • Cooldown fallback: provably-undispatched fresh turns degrade; ambiguous continuations keep the 503. The undispatched proof reads response_create_attempt_count, which is false before an actual send, verified against a state built by the real bridge request-preparation path.
  • Full unit suite green locally on the consolidated head, plus ruff, ruff format, ty, the proxy architecture check, and strict OpenSpec validation.
  • Validated live against a real websocket-only upstream outage: the first turn surfaces the 502 and arms the marker, the next handshake is denied with 426, and Codex turns complete over HTTP.

Notes

Independent of #1891, which addresses #1852. No file overlap between them.

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The proxy classifies upstream WebSocket connect failures, records temporary transport health, denies affected Responses WebSocket handshakes with HTTP 426, bypasses the HTTP bridge when needed, and retries only eligible pre-submit bridge failures over HTTP.

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Transport fallback

Layer / File(s) Summary
WebSocket failure classification and marker
app/core/clients/proxy_websocket.py, app/modules/proxy/_service/streaming/transport_health.py, app/modules/proxy/_service/websocket/mixin.py, openspec/changes/fall-back-to-http-on-websocket-connect-failure/...
Connect-phase failures and exhausted connection budgets arm a 60-second marker. Successful connections clear the marker. Other upstream failures retain their existing account handling.
Responses WebSocket handshake denial
app/modules/proxy/api.py, openspec/changes/fall-back-to-http-on-websocket-connect-failure/specs/responses-api-compat/spec.md
Responses WebSocket endpoints deny handshakes with HTTP 426 when the marker is active or HTTP transport is pinned. Realtime sockets remain excluded.
HTTP bridge bypass and fallback
app/modules/proxy/_service/http_bridge/streaming.py, openspec/changes/fall-back-to-http-on-websocket-connect-failure/specs/responses-api-compat/spec.md
The bridge bypasses itself during degraded WebSocket transport. Raw HTTP retry requires a pre-submit transient session-creation failure, no output, and no unsettled API-key reservation.
Regression coverage and specification
tests/unit/test_websocket_transport_fallback.py, openspec/changes/fall-back-to-http-on-websocket-connect-failure/..., .all-contributorsrc, README.md
Tests cover marker lifecycle, handshake denial, bridge fallback, and propagation of ineligible failures. OpenSpec documents the behavior and verification tasks. Contributor records include Derek Pearson.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to a0c83

This change makes clients fall back from unavailable WebSocket upstreams to HTTP, but the current implementation can miss that fallback on some recovery paths or incorrectly force HTTP 426 after route-resolution failures. Clients may remain stuck retrying WebSockets or receive the wrong transport signal, so the PR is not merge-ready until these paths are corrected or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CodexClient
  participant ResponsesAPI
  participant WebSocketMixin
  participant transport_health
  participant HTTPBridge
  participant UpstreamHTTP

  CodexClient->>ResponsesAPI: request Responses WebSocket handshake
  ResponsesAPI->>transport_health: check recent transport failure
  transport_health-->>ResponsesAPI: failure marker active
  ResponsesAPI-->>CodexClient: HTTP 426 transport error
  CodexClient->>HTTPBridge: request HTTP streaming
  HTTPBridge->>UpstreamHTTP: send request with HTTP transport
  UpstreamHTTP-->>HTTPBridge: HTTP response stream
  HTTPBridge-->>CodexClient: forward stream
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation addresses #1885 by handling WebSocket connect failures, avoiding account penalties, and enabling HTTP fallback.
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Address Codex review on Soju06#1886:

- Gate the connect-stage surface on failure_phase="connect" so OAuth
  refresh transport errors (and other account-scoped failures sharing the
  upstream_unavailable envelope) keep the classify-penalize-failover path
  toward healthy accounts instead of arming the instance-wide 426 marker.
  The websocket open timeout and invalid-handshake raises now carry that
  provenance alongside the existing InvalidStatus/OSError sites.
- Arm the handshake-denial marker when a websocket open exhausts the
  request budget, covering deployments whose budget is shorter than the
  open timeout where the budget-exhausted emit bypasses the failover
  decision.
- Force the HTTP upstream transport on bridged and raw responses paths
  while the marker is armed, so a sticky follow-up that the 426 denial
  moved to the HTTP route cannot resolve back onto the unavailable
  websocket upstream through the smart policy.
- Restrict the bridge raw-HTTP replay to failures carrying pre-submit
  session-creation provenance, so a post-dispatch upstream_unavailable
  can never dispatch the same turn twice.
- Move the marker into _service/streaming/transport_health.py shared by
  the websocket mixin, the responses websocket routes, and the bridge.

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In `@app/modules/proxy/_service/websocket/mixin.py`:
- Around line 4488-4494: In the ProcessNetworkRecovery branch where decision
equals "exhausted", call mark_upstream_websocket_transport_failure() immediately
before _raise_proxy_budget_exhausted(). Preserve the existing retryable
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Apply the same fix in `@app/modules/proxy/_service/websocket/mixin.py` at line 1.

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4363-4395: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Arm the marker before forced-surface replacement failures.

When selected_account_model_replacement is true, _connect_proxy_websocket sets action = "surface" at Lines 3602-3610 and skips _decide_websocket_failover_action. A qualifying connect-phase 5xx ProxyResponseError from that replacement open therefore skips mark_upstream_websocket_transport_failure(). The next Responses WebSocket handshake can then avoid HTTP 426 and retry WebSocket instead of switching to HTTP. Move the marker classification before the forced-surface branch or invoke the shared check there.

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CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding (forced-surface replacement failures skip the transport marker) is addressed in a0c8352: the connect-phase provenance classifier is now a shared helper (_websocket_connect_transport_failure_code), the failover decision uses it, and the selected_account_model_replacement surface branch arms the handshake-denial marker through the same check before surfacing. Covered by test_connect_transport_failure_classifier_provenance plus the existing decision-path tests.

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Limit the exhausted-recovery marker to connect-phase failures.

_open_upstream_websocket_with_budget also executes route resolution before connect_responses_websocket. A route-resolution failure becomes upstream_proxy_unavailable at Line 4552. If ProcessNetworkRecovery returns "exhausted" for that failure, Line 4519 arms the marker without checking provenance. The next Responses WebSocket handshake can then return HTTP 426 for a confirmed pre-dispatch failure.

Reuse _websocket_connect_transport_failure_code() before marking. Add a regression test for an exhausted route-resolution failure.

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                 if decision == "exhausted":
-                    mark_upstream_websocket_transport_failure()
+                    if _websocket_connect_transport_failure_code(
+                        exc,
+                        confirmed_pre_dispatch=is_confirmed_pre_dispatch_transport_error(exc),
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CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding (exhausted-recovery arming lacked provenance) is addressed in 57f935d: the exhausted branch now reuses _websocket_connect_transport_failure_code before arming, so an exhausted route-resolution failure (upstream_proxy_unavailable, no connect phase) no longer denies subsequent handshakes with 426. Regression added: test_exhausted_route_resolution_failure_does_not_arm_marker, and the positive exhaustion test now uses a connect-provenance failure.

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Pushed 0bdee87 addressing the integration-bridge failure (test_v1_responses_http_bridge_transient_refresh_failure_returns_upstream_error): the raw-HTTP replay was absorbing pre-submit refresh failures that share the upstream_unavailable envelope, retrying them, and surfacing no_accounts instead of the actionable 502. The wrapper fallback now also requires failure_phase == "connect" (the same provenance rule the websocket-side decision uses), with a unit test mirroring the CI failure and the OpenSpec delta updated. The full integration-bridge slice passes locally (259 passed). Workflow runs for the new head are awaiting fork approval.

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…is unavailable

A websocket-only upstream outage currently cascades into account
unavailability: every connect timeout records a transient account error,
retrying clients drive all accounts into error backoff, and hard session
affinity then fails follow-up turns closed with
previous_response_owner_unavailable on every transport.

codex-rs activates its session-scoped HTTP transport fallback only when
the websocket handshake is rejected with HTTP 426 (rust-v0.149.0,
core/src/client.rs); in-band 5xx error events retry on the websocket
transport, so the existing in-band service-level failures never steer
clients to HTTP.

- Surface server-level transient websocket connect failures without
  recording account health or rotating accounts.
- Arm a bounded (60s) transport-failure marker on that path, cleared on
  the next successful upstream websocket connect, and deny responses
  websocket handshakes with HTTP 426 while it is armed or while
  upstream_stream_transport is pinned to http.
- Bypass the HTTP responses bridge under a pinned http transport and
  fall back from transient pre-stream bridge session-creation failures
  to raw HTTP streaming (skipped while an API-key usage reservation is
  unsettled).

Closes Soju06#1885
Address Codex review on Soju06#1886:

- Gate the connect-stage surface on failure_phase="connect" so OAuth
  refresh transport errors (and other account-scoped failures sharing the
  upstream_unavailable envelope) keep the classify-penalize-failover path
  toward healthy accounts instead of arming the instance-wide 426 marker.
  The websocket open timeout and invalid-handshake raises now carry that
  provenance alongside the existing InvalidStatus/OSError sites.
- Arm the handshake-denial marker when a websocket open exhausts the
  request budget, covering deployments whose budget is shorter than the
  open timeout where the budget-exhausted emit bypasses the failover
  decision.
- Force the HTTP upstream transport on bridged and raw responses paths
  while the marker is armed, so a sticky follow-up that the 426 denial
  moved to the HTTP route cannot resolve back onto the unavailable
  websocket upstream through the smart policy.
- Restrict the bridge raw-HTTP replay to failures carrying pre-submit
  session-creation provenance, so a post-dispatch upstream_unavailable
  can never dispatch the same turn twice.
- Move the marker into _service/streaming/transport_health.py shared by
  the websocket mixin, the responses websocket routes, and the bridge.
The budgeted websocket opener's process-network recovery branch reaches
the same budget-exhausted emit as the stalled-open branch and bypasses
the failover decision, so it must arm the handshake-denial marker too.
Only the websocket open runs inside that loop, so the provenance is
unambiguous; the outer connect-attempt wrapper also covers token
refresh and deliberately stays unarmed.
The model-replacement connect branch surfaces failures without entering
the failover decision, so a qualifying connect-phase 5xx transport
failure on the replacement open never armed the handshake-denial
marker. Extract the provenance classifier shared by both paths and arm
the marker in the forced-surface branch too.
The budgeted opener's loop also runs route resolution, whose
upstream_proxy_unavailable failures are pre-dispatch route evidence; an
exhausted recovery wait on one must not deny subsequent handshakes with
426. Reuse the shared connect-provenance classifier before arming.
The proxy architecture matrix allows http_bridge and websocket to import
only their listed domains (support among them, streaming not), so the
shared transport-failure marker belongs in _service/support.py rather
than a new streaming module. Also align the test harness override of
_handle_websocket_connect_error with the base signature for ty.
An exhausted token-refresh loop surfaces the same pre-submit 502
upstream_unavailable envelope as a websocket-open failure, but it is
account evidence: replaying it over raw HTTP re-runs the same failing
refresh and buries the actionable error under no_accounts (caught by
test_v1_responses_http_bridge_transient_refresh_failure_returns_
upstream_error in integration-bridge CI). Gate the wrapper fallback on
failure_phase == "connect", mirroring the websocket-side provenance
rule, and record the refresh case as a propagation scenario in the
OpenSpec delta.
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The sanitized error code cannot carry transport provenance in either
direction, so classifying on it both missed real outages and captured
scoped failures:

- The responses policy preserves the upstream handshake body, so a direct
  5xx upgrade rejection surfaced as `upstream_error` and never armed the
  426 marker — the common direct outage left Codex clients retrying
  websocket indefinitely.
- A routed 5xx handshake, a TLS verification failure and host-wide network
  loss all share the `upstream_unavailable` envelope, so each was
  misclassified as a global outage and pushed unrelated clients onto HTTP.

The direct upstream open now stamps host-scoped transport provenance and
withholds it from credential-scoped rejections, TLS failures, host-wide
network loss and every routed open; the shared classifier moves to the
support domain and keys on that provenance.

Also:

- A request budget shorter than the local websocket-connect admission wait
  expired before the connector ever ran and still armed the marker,
  answering local contention by forcing every client onto HTTP. The
  budgeted opener now tracks whether the connector began.
- Bridge session creation runs its own pre-dispatch failover and never
  reaches the websocket failover decision, so bridge-only traffic left the
  marker clear. The bridge fallback now arms it for failures the classifier
  recognizes.
- The bridge injects the durable anchor into its own prepared payload, but
  the fallback replays the incoming payload and the raw path never injects
  a response anchor. A hard-continuity follow-up therefore lost prior
  context; such turns are no longer replayed over raw HTTP.

Regression coverage exercises the real client conversion for each connect
site and the real bridge reconstruction for the anchor provenance.
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Two places still decided a websocket outage by something other than the
connect-site provenance the classifier now carries:

- The bridge fallback wrapper still compared the sanitized code against
  `upstream_unavailable`. A direct 5xx bridge connect preserves the upstream
  envelope, so it surfaces as `upstream_error` and was rethrown before ever
  reaching the classifier — the exact outage this change targets stayed on
  the dead websocket bridge and left the marker clear. The wrapper now gates
  on the classifier, which subsumes the code, phase and status checks.
- The budget-timeout marker keyed on any connector having begun. A stalled
  routed open therefore armed a process-wide denial from one account's
  unhealthy proxy endpoint, and because the budget cancels the open rather
  than failing it, no error exists for the routed exclusion to act on. The
  progress flag is now confined to the direct connector.
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Thanks — this is one of the strongest community PRs in the queue: a live-validated fix for a nasty outage mode, with every bot finding across three review rounds confirmed, fixed, and covered by a regression test. I reviewed the full diff on df95b8d and ran the suites locally: test_websocket_transport_fallback.py 36/36, the five adjacent websocket suites 123/123, and test_proxy_http_bridge.py 639 passed with the single failure (test_stream_via_http_bridge_fails_closed_before_file_affinity_when_previous_response_owner_misses) reproducing identically on the unmodified merge-base, confirming it's pre-existing in this environment as you noted.

Two process items before merge, neither requiring code changes from you: (1) the required CI and Simplicity-budgets workflows are still awaiting fork-run approval on df95b8d, so the full suite hasn't run in CI on the final head — we'll approve the run; (2) since the last two P1 fixes (bridge provenance gating in _stream_http_bridge_or_retry, and _WebSocketConnectProgress.direct_upstream_connect_started route-scoping) landed after the latest codex review of 5239ff7, we want one clean @codex re-review round given how productive the prior rounds were on this classifier.

One non-blocking observation: in _open_upstream_websocket, clear_upstream_websocket_transport_failure() runs on any successful open, including routed ones — by the PR's own provenance argument a routed success proves only that one account's proxy endpoint is healthy, so a routed success during a direct-upstream outage clears the marker early and costs one extra failed direct attempt before it re-arms. It's bounded and self-correcting, so fine to leave as-is or tighten to route is None in a follow-up.

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Arming became direct-scoped, but clearing did not: any successful open,
routed included, cleared the denial state. By this change's own provenance
argument a routed success proves only that one account's proxy endpoint is
healthy, so a routed success during a direct-upstream outage readmitted
handshakes early and cost an extra failed direct attempt before the marker
re-armed.

Clearing is now direct-scoped too. Because a routed open can neither arm nor
clear, an all-routed deployment never uses the marker at all, and a mixed one
still expires it on the bounded window.
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Thanks for the thorough read, and for reproducing the pre-existing test_stream_via_http_bridge_fails_closed_before_file_affinity_when_previous_response_owner_misses failure on the merge-base — good to have that confirmed independently.

On the non-blocking observation: you are right, and it was an asymmetry I introduced. Arming became direct-scoped in df95b8df but clearing did not, so by this PR's own provenance argument a routed success was clearing a denial state that only direct-upstream evidence had armed. I have tightened it to route is None in cad6474f rather than deferring it, since it is one line plus two tests and it makes the arm/clear pair consistent — a routed open can now neither arm nor clear, so an all-routed deployment never engages the marker and a mixed one still falls back to the bounded 60s window. Happy to drop that commit and take it as a follow-up PR instead if you would rather freeze df95b8df for the re-review round; just say the word.

Two notes for your process items:

  1. The @codex re-review has not run — the bot replied that the account has reached its usage limits for code reviews. It will need a retrigger once that resets.
  2. Heads up that main has moved on quite a bit since this branch (including fix(proxy): enforce OpenSpec architecture ratchets #1892's OpenSpec architecture ratchets and fix(proxy): recover stale previous response anchors #1863's stale-anchor recovery). I have deliberately not merged main in, to keep the head stable for the run you are about to approve — tell me if you would like it brought up to date first.

Local verification on cad6474f: full unit suite 6376 passed / 71 skipped, plus ruff, ruff format, ty, and scripts/check_proxy_architecture.py all clean.

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The bridge retry circuit's pre-dispatch submission gate suppresses new
turns on a cooling hard-affinity session with a bounded 503. For a
request whose state is provably undispatched — no client or
proxy-injected continuation identity, no file account pin, and none of
the unambiguous-boundary markers (response_id, response events,
downstream visibility, a pending response.create send, a prior replay)
— that 503 now carries the shared pre-submit provenance and the
streaming wrapper degrades the turn to raw HTTP instead. Ambiguous
continuations keep the bounded 503 with its retry hint, because a
replay could execute the turn twice.

The pre-submit provenance attribute moves to http_bridge/helpers.py so
request_submit.py and streaming.py share one definition.
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feat(proxy): fall back to HTTP transport when upstream websocket connects time out in auto mode

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