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title: "Can an interrupted OpenAI streaming response be resumed without starting over?"  
description: "Can an interrupted OpenAI streaming response be resumed without starting over?"  
author: "Saurabh Verma"  
published: 2026-10-23  
updated: 2026-10-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162883/can-an-interrupted-openai-streaming-response-be-resumed-without-starting-over  
category: "OpenAI API"  
tags: ["OpenAI API", "streaming", "API Design"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Can an interrupted OpenAI streaming response be resumed without starting over?

I’m building a chat interface with the OpenAI API and trying to handle unreliable connections gracefully. If a stream drops halfway through a response, is there a supported way to resume that same response from where it stopped, or does the client need to start a new request?

I’m especially curious whether any response or event identifiers help here, and how people avoid showing duplicate text if they retry.


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Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162883/can-an-interrupted-openai-streaming-response-be-resumed-without-starting-over

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