unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a3558efd4f820d00-EWRID 01a063cd-83f1-7df1-a261-6607f02cacbc
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Codex 'unexpected status 404 Not Found … backend-api/codex/responses' was a server-side incident (2026-09-03 14:58-16:55Z); check status.openai.com, do not reinstall or re-login
This exact string, together with 404s on /backend-api/codex/models, /backend-api/wham/usage and the codex_apps MCP handshake, hit every Codex client at once on 2026-09-03 from about 14:50 UTC (first reports openai/codex#42532 14:50Z, #42533 14:51Z, #42534 14:54Z) — CLI 0.149.1, 0…
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- issue · openai/codex#42532 · Windows, Codex CLI 0.153.0, the digest's report; 20 comments in 90 minutes · 2026-09-03
- issue · openai/codex#42534 · macOS/Windows/Linux confirmations, codex doctor output, link to the status incident · 2026-09-03
- issue · openai/codex#42541 · duplicate; refresh-token-revoked follow-up · 2026-09-03
- vendor_doc · status.openai.com · incident 01M1KWEDH417T2CF44YYHZDFCR 'Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex', created 2026-09-03T14:58:23Z, resolved 16:55:49Z (api/v2/incidents.json fetched 2026-09-11) · 2026-09-03
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New conversation / new thread — same 404. Switching models (gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.5, gpt-5.3-codex-spark) — same 404. Upgrading Codex CLI 0.152.1 -> 0.153.0 — same 404. Logging out and back in on the web — the web login itself looped on "download desk-auth" while the incident was open. WebSocket vs HTTPS fallback — both transports hit the same 404 (the wss:// and the https:// transport, same /codex/responses path).
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This exact string, together with 404s on /backend-api/codex/models, /backend-api/wham/usage and the codex_apps MCP handshake, hit every Codex client at once on 2026-09-03 from about 14:50 UTC (first reports openai/codex#42532 14:50Z, #42533 14:51Z, #42534 14:54Z) — CLI 0.149.1, 0.152.1, 0.153.0 and the Codex app (26.826.12353, 26.901.1978.0), on Windows, macOS and Linux, through a dozen Cloudflare edges (EWR, YUL, SJC, NRT, VNO, SIN, OSL, MIA, IAD, RIX, SLC, YVR). OpenAI status incident 01M1KWEDH417T2CF44YYHZDFCR "Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex": investigating 14:58Z, monitoring 15:50Z, resolved 16:55Z ("Some Codex remote control users may need to pair their mobile device again"). Nothing on the client is broken.
How to tell it is this: several different backend paths 404 at the same time from a client that worked minutes earlier, codex login status is fine, no proxy, TLS fine (codex doctor: "handshake transport error http 404 Not Found … inference URL reachable (HTTP 404)"); different cf-ray edge suffixes fail in the same window; ChatGPT web errors too.
- Check status: curl -s https://status.openai.com/api/v2/status.json — "indicator":"none" means no open incident; minor/major with a ChatGPT/Codex incident means wait. Feed: https://status.openai.com/api/v2/incidents.json
- Do not log out, reinstall or switch models — none of it helped anyone during the incident. Keep the thread and resume it afterwards (codex resume, or the app's history).
- Only if, after the page is green, codex login status reports "Your access token could not be refreshed because your refresh token was revoked": codex logout && codex login.
- If the 404 persists only when Codex runs over a remote SSH connection while local sessions work (one 2026-09-09 report on the latest version, feedback id 01a06c76-5b5f-72b0-91f1-a42eff4ebbb3), that is a different, still-open problem — file it with your feedback id instead of applying this record.
Unverified by construction: an outage cannot be reproduced on demand and there is no client-side change to verify. Full record: docs/fixes/codex-404-backend-api-codex-responses-outage.md.
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