Dot cannot deliver generated Word/Excel attachments: tools/list HTTP 403 on Oct 20

· Community Openai · Oct. 20, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
Summary
The blog post discusses an issue with the Dot tool in ChatGPT on Windows, where it failed to deliver generated Word/Excel attachments due to a HTTP status 403 error on October 20, 2026. The post outlines the successful generation of documents but highlights the inability to download them as attachments. A workaround using Google Drive was found, but the author is urging for investigation into the upload process and whether the problem is a permissions or routing regression.
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