Codex not able to do basic web fetch even with increased permissions

Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened Dec 28, 2025 by eeshansrivastava89 Closed Dec 28, 2025

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

0.77.0

What subscription do you have?

Plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.2-codex high

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.2.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

Asked Codex to research some topics, provided a set of URLs as well. It couldn't do a simple web fetch, started looking up lynx and then building python web scraping functions to access URLs. I remember this was not an issue just a couple of days ago or maybe I'm forgetting. I work with Claude as an implementer and Codex as the advisor / architect, so researching approaches is most important for Codex. But not having web fetch seems extremely limiting. I uploaded the thread ID so you can explore a bit more.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019b62b8-e969-70e1-a5f7-5c4581f66114

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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7 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 6 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

#6499
#6487

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styler-ai · 6 months ago

Isnt' this a duplicate of: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/8389#issuecomment-3693700765

etraut-openai contributor · 6 months ago

Closing in favor of #8389

eeshansrivastava89 · 6 months ago

This fix worked for me: added the below in: ~/.codex/config.toml

[features]
web_search_request = true

TomasHubelbauer · 5 months ago

Can anyone confirm whether web_search_request is still needed? I am not sure if Codex CLI can now do web fetch by default (I would hope so) or not.

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

Web search is now enabled by default. See this post for details.

eeshansrivastava89 · 5 months ago

Yes. Saw a deprecation warning for web_search_request, so updated my config to web_search = "live"