Enabling SSL causes connection to close randomly

[ethan-tonic]

I was setting up uvicorn with fastapi and enabled SSL. After enabling SSL, I noticed every now and then when I send a request, I will get the following error ConnectionResetError: [WinError 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. It seems to be a Windows specific error, but I couldn't find any solutions to it online.

How to reproduce

This only occurs on Windows

--- main.py
import uvicorn
from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles

from api.api import api_router

api_str = "/api/v1"
app = FastAPI(title="test", openapi_url=f"{api_str}/openapi.json")

app.include_router(api_router, prefix=api_str)

if __name__ == "__main__":
        uvicorn.run(
            "main:app",
            port=8001,
            host="0.0.0.0",
            ssl_keyfile="./key.pem",
            ssl_certfile="./cert.pem",
        )

--- api/api.py
from fastapi import APIRouter

from api.endpoints import test_endpoint

api_router = APIRouter()
api_router.include_router(test_endpoint.router, prefix="/test", tags=["test"])

--- api/endpoints/test_endpoint.py
from typing import Any
from fastapi import APIRouter

router = APIRouter()

@router.get("/")
async def root() -> Any:
    return {"message": "Hello World"}

To generate the certificate and key. I did the following command openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days 10000 -nodes

After doing all the above steps, I just would randomly request the api test endpoint and while it works most of the time, every now and then it will fail with the following error.

ERROR [asyncio] Exception in callback _ProactorBasePipeTransport._call_connection_lost(None)
handle: <Handle _ProactorBasePipeTransport._call_connection_lost(None)>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\ethantonic\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\asyncio\events.py", line 80, in _run
    self._context.run(self._callback, *self._args)
  File "C:\Users\ethantonic\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\asyncio\proactor_events.py", line 165, in _call_connection_lost
    self._sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
ConnectionResetError: [WinError 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

If it helps, I am on version 3.11.6 of Python and on Windows 11 for my OS. My uvicorn version is 0.23.2.

[ramjke]

Did you find a solution? I’m facing the same rare issue with my FastAPI behind Cloudflare and a Windows client