Connection refused for URI https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions in Laravel application

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I have a Laravel application that uses OpenAI API through the openai-php/laravel composer package.
It used to work fine but suddenly started to fail to connect to OpenAI even though I made no changes to the codebase.

The code that makes the request to OpenAI is as follows. It calls the OpenAI API with the stream mode. It uses Guzzle Http client under the hood.

use OpenAI\Laravel\Facades\OpenAI;

$stream = OpenAI::chat()->createStreamed([
    'model' => 'gpt-4-turbo',
    'messages' => [
        ['role' => 'user', 'content' => $prompt],
    ],
    'temperature' => 0,
]);

The error message I get is as follows.

{
    "message": "Connection refused for URI https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions",
    "context": {
        "userId": "9bc22218-7648-4baf-85df-ddaa75879d38",
        "exception": {
            "class": "OpenAI\\Exceptions\\TransporterException",
            "message": "Connection refused for URI https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions",
            "code": 0,
            "file": "/var/www/html/vendor/openai-php/client/src/Transporters/HttpTransporter.php:108",
            "previous": {
                "class": "GuzzleHttp\\Exception\\ConnectException",
                "message": "Connection refused for URI https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions",
                "code": 0,
                "file": "/var/www/html/vendor/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Handler/StreamHandler.php:72",
                "previous": {
                    "class": "GuzzleHttp\\Exception\\ConnectException",
                    "message": "Connection refused for URI https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions",
                    "code": 0,
                    "file": "/var/www/html/vendor/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Handler/StreamHandler.php:329"
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "level": 400,
    "level_name": "ERROR",
    "channel": "production",
    "datetime": "2024-06-16T00:26:21.750301+00:00",
    "extra": {}
}

The original exception is thrown from the StreamHandler.php file in the guzzlehttp package.

$resource = @\fopen((string) $uri, 'r', false, $contextResource);
$this->lastHeaders = $http_response_header ?? [];

if (false === $resource) {
    throw new ConnectException(sprintf('Connection refused for URI %s', $uri), $request, null, $context);
}

It works fine in the following scenarios:

  • Local environment with the streaming enabled (OpenAI::chat()->createStreamed())
  • Production environment (Fly.io) with streaming disabled (OpenAI::chat()->create() instead of OpenAI::chat()->createStreamed())
  • Production environment (Fly.io) with streaming enabled but the code executed in the Tinker session

It only fails when the app calls OpenAI with streaming enabled (OpenAI::chat()->createStreamed()) in the context of a web request in production (Fly.io).

Because the same code works in the Tinker session, I suspect that the issue is related to the web server permissions to make outgoing requests. But Iā€™m not sure how to debug this further.

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With further investigation, it turned out that the allow_url_fopen PHP config was set to Off by the base Docker image.

Overwriting it through ENV PHP_ALLOW_URL_FOPEN=1 resolved the issue. It would be great if we could lock the version of the base image to avoid unexpected changes like this.

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