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title: "Can an OpenAI streaming response resume after a network drop?"  
description: "Can an OpenAI streaming response resume after a network drop?"  
author: "Marta Kowalska"  
published: 2026-10-22  
updated: 2026-10-22  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162751/can-an-openai-streaming-response-resume-after-a-network-drop  
category: "OpenAI API"  
tags: ["OpenAI", "API Development", "streaming", "Error Handling"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Can an OpenAI streaming response resume after a network drop?

I’m consuming the OpenAI Responses API as a stream, and I’m unsure what the safest recovery path is when a client loses its connection partway through. Can the **OpenAI Responses API stream** be resumed from the last event, or does the client have to start a new response?

My main concern is avoiding duplicate work if the response had already started a tool call before the connection disappeared. How are other developers handling reconnects and retries in production?


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Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162751/can-an-openai-streaming-response-resume-after-a-network-drop

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