## Why
Responses HTTP requests were converted from `ResponsesApiRequest` into a
full `serde_json::Value`. `EndpointSession` then deep-cloned that value
for each retry, and the transport serialized and compressed it again
before every send.
Large histories make those copies expensive. Retry attempts should reuse
the same immutable request bytes.
## What
- Serialize standard Responses requests directly into a ref-counted
`EncodedJsonBody`.
- Preserve the Azure path that attaches item IDs before encoding.
- Prepare JSON, compression, and derived content headers once before the
retry loop.
- Clone the prepared request per attempt so body clones only bump the
`Bytes` reference count.
- Keep auth inside the retry loop. Signing auth sees the exact final
headers and body bytes that the transport sends.
- Preserve request-body TRACE output. With TRACE plus compression,
retain the original JSON bytes for logging; normal requests keep only
the final wire bytes.
- Leave non-Responses endpoint bodies on the existing `Value` path.
## Performance
A temporary release-mode measurement used a 10 MiB JSON body and 10
retry preparations:
- old `Value` clone + serialize path: 30 ms total
- prepared shared-byte path: less than 1 ms total
That is about 3 ms avoided per retry for this payload on the test
machine. Each retry also stops allocating another request-sized JSON
tree and serialized buffer. Without TRACE, compressed requests retain
only the final compressed wire bytes.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-client` — 28 passed
- `just test -p codex-api` — 125 passed
- `just fix -p codex-client`
- `just fix -p codex-api`
## Summary
Add first-class Amazon Bedrock Mantle provider support so Codex can keep
using its existing Responses API transport with OpenAI-compatible
AWS-hosted endpoints such as AOA/Mantle.
This is needed for the AWS launch path, where provider traffic should
authenticate with AWS credentials instead of OpenAI bearer credentials.
Requests are authenticated immediately before transport send, so SigV4
signs the final method, URL, headers, and body bytes that `reqwest` will
send.
## What Changed
- Added a new `codex-aws-auth` crate for loading AWS SDK config,
resolving credentials, and signing finalized HTTP requests with AWS
SigV4.
- Added a built-in `amazon-bedrock` provider that targets Bedrock Mantle
Responses endpoints, defaults to `us-east-1`, supports region/profile
overrides, disables WebSockets, and does not require OpenAI auth.
- Added Amazon Bedrock auth resolution in `codex-model-provider`: prefer
`AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK` when set, otherwise use AWS SDK credentials
and SigV4 signing.
- Added `AuthProvider::apply_auth` and `Request::prepare_body_for_send`
so request-signing providers can sign the exact outbound request after
JSON serialization/compression.
- Determine the region by taking the `aws.region` config first (required
for bearer token codepath), and fallback to SDK default region.
## Testing
Amazon Bedrock Mantle Responses paths:
- Built the local Codex binary with `cargo build`.
- Verified the custom proxy-backed `aws` provider using `env_key =
"AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK"` streamed raw `responses` output with
`response.output_text.delta`, `response.completed`, and `mantle-env-ok`.
- Verified a full `codex exec --profile aws` turn returned
`mantle-env-ok`.
- Confirmed the custom provider used the bearer env var, not AWS profile
auth: bogus `AWS_PROFILE` still passed, empty env var failed locally,
and malformed env var reached Mantle and failed with `401
invalid_api_key`.
- Verified built-in `amazon-bedrock` with `AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK` set
passed despite bogus AWS profiles, returning `amazon-bedrock-env-ok`.
- Verified built-in `amazon-bedrock` SDK/SigV4 auth passed with
`AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK` unset and temporary AWS session env
credentials, returning `amazon-bedrock-sdk-env-ok`.
## Summary
- Adds a process-local, in-memory cookie store for ChatGPT HTTP clients.
- Limits cookie storage and replay to a shared ChatGPT host allowlist.
- Wires the shared store into the default Codex reqwest client and
backend client.
- Shares the ChatGPT host allowlist with remote-control URL validation
to avoid drift.
- Enables reqwest cookie support and updates lockfiles.
Adds WebRTC startup to the experimental app-server
`thread/realtime/start` method with an optional transport enum. The
websocket path remains the default; WebRTC offers create the realtime
session through the shared start flow and emit the answer SDP via
`thread/realtime/sdp`.
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Stacked PRs
This work is now effectively split across two steps:
- #14178: add custom CA support for browser and device-code login flows,
docs, and hermetic subprocess tests
- #14239: extend that shared custom CA handling across Codex HTTPS
clients and secure websocket TLS
Note: #14240 was merged into this branch while it was stacked on top of
this PR. This PR now subsumes that websocket follow-up and should be
treated as the combined change.
Builds on top of #14178.
## Problem
Custom CA support landed first in the login path, but the real
requirement is broader. Codex constructs outbound TLS clients in
multiple places, and both HTTPS and secure websocket paths can fail
behind enterprise TLS interception if they do not honor
`CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE` or `SSL_CERT_FILE` consistently.
This PR broadens the shared custom-CA logic beyond login and applies the
same policy to websocket TLS, so the enterprise-proxy story is no longer
split between “HTTPS works” and “websockets still fail”.
## What This Delivers
Custom CA support is no longer limited to login. Codex outbound HTTPS
clients and secure websocket connections can now honor the same
`CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE` / `SSL_CERT_FILE` configuration, so enterprise
proxy/intercept setups work more consistently end-to-end.
For users and operators, nothing new needs to be configured beyond the
same CA env vars introduced in #14178. The change is that more of Codex
now respects them, including websocket-backed flows that were previously
still using default trust roots.
I also manually validated the proxy path locally with mitmproxy using:
`CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE=~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem
HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8080 just codex`
with mitmproxy installed via `brew install mitmproxy` and configured as
the macOS system proxy.
## Mental model
`codex-client` is now the owner of shared custom-CA policy for outbound
TLS client construction. Reqwest callers start from the builder
configuration they already need, then pass that builder through
`build_reqwest_client_with_custom_ca(...)`. Websocket callers ask the
same module for a rustls client config when a custom CA bundle is
configured.
The env precedence is the same everywhere:
- `CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE` wins
- otherwise fall back to `SSL_CERT_FILE`
- otherwise use system roots
The helper is intentionally narrow. It loads every usable certificate
from the configured PEM bundle into the appropriate root store and
returns either a configured transport or a typed error that explains
what went wrong.
## Non-goals
This does not add handshake-level integration tests against a live TLS
endpoint. It does not validate that the configured bundle forms a
meaningful certificate chain. It also does not try to force every
transport in the repo through one abstraction; it extends the shared CA
policy across the reqwest and websocket paths that actually needed it.
## Tradeoffs
The main tradeoff is centralizing CA behavior in `codex-client` while
still leaving adoption up to call sites. That keeps the implementation
additive and reviewable, but it means the rule "outbound Codex TLS that
should honor enterprise roots must use the shared helper" is still
partly enforced socially rather than by types.
For websockets, the shared helper only builds an explicit rustls config
when a custom CA bundle is configured. When no override env var is set,
websocket callers still use their ordinary default connector path.
## Architecture
`codex-client::custom_ca` now owns CA bundle selection, PEM
normalization, mixed-section parsing, certificate extraction, typed
CA-loading errors, and optional rustls client-config construction for
websocket TLS.
The affected consumers now call into that shared helper directly rather
than carrying login-local CA behavior:
- backend-client
- cloud-tasks
- RMCP client paths that use `reqwest`
- TUI voice HTTP paths
- `codex-core` default reqwest client construction
- `codex-api` websocket clients for both responses and realtime
websocket connections
The subprocess CA probe, env-sensitive integration tests, and shared PEM
fixtures also live in `codex-client`, which is now the actual owner of
the behavior they exercise.
## Observability
The shared CA path logs:
- which environment variable selected the bundle
- which path was loaded
- how many certificates were accepted
- when `TRUSTED CERTIFICATE` labels were normalized
- when CRLs were ignored
- where client construction failed
Returned errors remain user-facing and include the relevant env var,
path, and remediation hint. That same error model now applies whether
the failure surfaced while building a reqwest client or websocket TLS
configuration.
## Tests
Pure unit tests in `codex-client` cover env precedence and PEM
normalization behavior. Real client construction remains in subprocess
tests so the suite can control process env and avoid the macOS seatbelt
panic path that motivated the hermetic test split.
The subprocess coverage verifies:
- `CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE` precedence over `SSL_CERT_FILE`
- fallback to `SSL_CERT_FILE`
- single-cert and multi-cert bundles
- malformed and empty-file errors
- OpenSSL `TRUSTED CERTIFICATE` handling
- CRL tolerance for well-formed CRL sections
The websocket side is covered by the existing `codex-api` / `codex-core`
websocket test suites plus the manual mitmproxy validation above.
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Co-authored-by: Ivan Zakharchanka <3axap4eHko@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Adds a new feature
`enable_request_compression` that will compress using zstd requests to
the codex-backend. Currently only enabled for codex-backend so only enabled for openai providers when using chatgpt::auth even when the feature is enabled
Added a new info log line too for evaluating the compression ratio and
overhead off compressing before requesting. You can enable with
`RUST_LOG=$RUST_LOG,codex_client::transport=info`
```
2026-01-06T00:09:48.272113Z INFO codex_client::transport: Compressed request body with zstd pre_compression_bytes=28914 post_compression_bytes=11485 compression_duration_ms=0
```
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