Open WebUI integration fails: OpenAI Models are requested using "OPTIONS" instead of "GET"

AI
1

I have an Open WebUI instance with several available models. Open WebUI comes with an OpenAI compatible API. This endpoint is available at https://ai-chat.SomeDomain.de/api/ such that I can, e.g., call https://ai-chat.SomeDomain.de/api/models to get my models listed.

I tried to integrate it as OpenAI provider in Only Office (using the above mentioned API-URL and my API-Key), but it doesn’t work. Only Office doesn’t load any models.

I took a look at the network traffic. It looks like Only Office is trying to get the model list using OPTIONS instead of GET:

Network Traffic
Network Traffic499×351 54 KB

However, the Official OpenAI API documentation describes the retrieval of models with GET.
I assume that this is the reason why the integration with Open WebUI doesn’t work.

I tested with Only Office 9.2.1.43 (Community-Version) with the new built-in AI-Agent menu as well es with the AI-Plugin.

Thanks a lot in advance for your support!

2

Hello @markusw

Since OpenAI provider uses different template in AI plugin, I suggest creating a custom provider for your instance of Open WebUI. For more information about custom providers please refer to the article: How to add a custom provider to the ONLYOFFICE AI plugin | ONLYOFFICE Blog

3

Hi @Constantine,
Thanks for your replay. I’ll give it a try and report here. Unfortunately, my next weeks will be very busy, so it may take a while till I find the time to work on the custom provider.

1 Like