Reconnecting... 5/5 unexpected status 413 Payload Too Large
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Feb 6, 2026 by ANONIMNIQ Closed Feb 27, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
260205.1301 (554)
What subscription do you have?
Free
What issue are you seeing?
Reconnecting... 1/5
Reconnecting... 2/5
Reconnecting... 3/5
Reconnecting... 4/5
Reconnecting... 5/5
unexpected status 413 Payload Too Large: <html> <head><title>413 Payload Too Large</title></head> <body> <center><h1>413 Payload Too Large</h1></center> <hr><center>cloudflare</center> </body> </html>, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: 9c9caa550ac72ba5-SOF
What steps can reproduce the bug?
just prompts in my project
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
For 2 days now Codex app is useless for my current project. Every prompt with every model gives me the same error.
2 Comments
I keep getting this same bug and it looks like this
<img width="833" height="118" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3e905ed3-65fe-4562-9f6c-1cc4d1df65a5" />
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