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jayseb 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Cursor CLI

codex login does not seem to work with ChatGPT Plus.

Getting this error:

Error response Error code: 500

Message: Token exchange failed: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: unable to get local issuer certificate (_ssl.c:1006)>.

Error code explanation: 500 - Server got itself in trouble.

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/1243

I am and many other similar users would love to move from Claude Code to Codex, but this is preventing us from doing it.

diggan 11 months ago [–]

Hmm, I just upgraded my local codex-cli to 0.19.0 and had to smoke the ~/.codex directory before I could again try to login. Once past that, everything worked fine (so far at least), and managed to get it to connect to my ChatGPT Pro account.

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