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  "path": "/t/wrong-the-image-data-you-provided-does-not-represent-a-valid-image-error-when-sending-only-jpg-image-links/1293925#post_5",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-09T12:22:06.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I looked into this a bit. My read is: a duplicate image URL should not, by itself, make the request invalid**.** If the same URL is a valid, publicly fetchable JPEG, sending it twice should be OK.\n\nThat error message usually means something more specific: when the API tried to read one of the image inputs, the bytes it received did not decode as a supported image (jpeg/png/gif/webp). A URL ending in .jpg is not enough to guarantee that. For example, the OpenAI server may fetch the URL and receive an HTML error page, a 403/429 hotlink-protection page, a redirect/login page, a truncated response, or bytes with the wrong content.\n\nA quick way to narrow this down:\n\n  * Try the same request with each image URL one at a time.\n  * From a clean/non-browser environment, run something like:\n\n\n\n`curl -L -D headers.txt -o image.bin ``'YOUR_IMAGE_URL'`\n\n`file image.bin`\n\n`python - <<``'PY'`\n\n`from PIL import Image`\n\n`Image.open(``\"image.bin\"``).verify()`\n\n`print``(``\"image decodes OK\"``)`\n\nPY\n\n  * Check that the downloaded body is actually a JPEG, not HTML/XML/text.\n  * If it only fails when the  _same valid image URL is repeated_ , capture the failing OpenAI request_id and share it with support / in this thread. That would be worth investigating as a bug.\n  * As a workaround, try sending the image as a data: URL / base64 image, or make sure the image is hosted at a public URL that allows server-side fetching.\n\n\n\nOne nuance: browsers can succeed where API servers fail because your browser may have cookies, a different user-agent, cached content, or access from a different IP/location.\n\nSo I’d classify this as: **expected error if the backend fetch got non-image/corrupt bytes; probable bug or misleading error if the URL is publicly fetchable as a valid JPEG and merely duplicating it causes the failure.**",
  "title": "Wrong \"The image data you provided does not represent a valid image\" Error when sending only JPG image links"
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