codex - 💡(How to fix) Fix VS Code extension repeatedly fetches connector logos, causing "Server overloaded; retry later" errors [1 comments, 2 participants]

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

2.1.119

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code

What platform is your computer?

Linux 6.8.0-107-generic x86_64 x86_64

What issue are you seeing?

The Codex VS Code extension repeatedly logs connector logo fetch failures.

Example error:

2026-04-24 22:00:27.944 [error] Error fetching error={"code":-32001,"message":"Server overloaded; retry later."} url=/aip/connectors/asdk_app_69956675f2848191b08e0400f2695572/logo?theme=dark

In one VS Code session, my Codex log contained around 1148 /aip/connectors/.../logo fetch errors.

I also saw nearby app-server errors:

Request failed conversationId=none error={"code":-32001,"message":"Server overloaded; retry later."} method=skills/list Request failed conversationId=<redacted> error={"code":-32001,"message":"Server overloaded; retry later."} method=thread/read Request failed conversationId=<redacted> error={"code":-32001,"message":"Server overloaded; retry later."} method=thread/resume

What steps can reproduce the bug?

1. Open VS Code with the Codex extension installed.
2. Sign in to Codex/ChatGPT.
3. Open the Codex panel.
4. Let the extension load apps/connectors.
5. Check the Codex extension log.

On my machine, the log was here:

~/.config/Code/logs/20260424T215827/window1/exthost/openai.chatgpt/Codex.log The log repeatedly contained errors like:

text

Error fetching error={"code":-32001,"message":"Server overloaded; retry later."} url=/aip/connectors/<connector-id>/logo?theme=dark Error fetching error={"code":-32001,"message":"Server overloaded; retry later."} url=/aip/connectors/<connector-id>/logo?theme=light I do not have a small code snippet because this is an IDE extension / app-server behavior, not repository code.

What is the expected behavior?

The extension should not flood the log with repeated connector logo fetch failures.

Expected behavior:

• Connector logos should be cached, throttled, or retried quietly.
• A logo fetch failure should not produce hundreds or thousands of repeated error lines.
• Logo fetch failures should not affect unrelated operations such as thread/read, thread/resume, or skills/list.
• If the server is overloaded, the extension should back off instead of retrying many logo requests.

Additional information

I manually tested one of the same logo requests using the local Codex auth token, without printing the token.

Authenticated backend request:

GET https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/aip/connectors/asdk_app_69956675f2848191b08e0400f2695572/logo?theme=dark

Result:

status: 200 OK content-type: image/png content-length: 10205

So the logo itself was reachable through the authenticated backend API. The issue seems to be the extension/app-server retry behavior or request burst behavior.

Environment:

IDE extension version: 26.422.21459 IDE: VS Code Platform: Linux 6.8.0-107-generic x86_64 x86_64

I also saw separate telemetry errors like this, but I think they are unrelated:

Error fetching httpStatus=403 statusText=Forbidden url=https://chatgpt.com/ces/v1/rgstr?<redacted>