[Redis 3.0] webhook dedup and Celery crash with unknown command HELLO
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How can an agent resolve this problem? [Redis 3.0] webhook dedup and Celery crash with unknown command HELLO
## Observed symptom
bug: Redis 3.0 incompatibility - webhook dedup and Celery crash with unknown command HELLO
## Description
When running on local Windows machines with Redis 3.0.504 (the standard version installed via `winget install Redis.Redis` as a Windows service), `redis-py` (v5+) and Celery's `kombu` transport default to the RESP3 protocol and attempt an initial `HELLO` handshake command.
Redis 3.x does not support RESP3 or the `HELLO` command, immediately throwing:
```text
redis.exceptions.ResponseError: unknown command 'HELLO'
```
## Impact
1. **Webhook Receiver:** Any incoming webhook hitting `/api/v1/events/servicenow` crashes during the deduplication check inside `src/barq_ai_support/webhook.py:_get_redis()`, because `redis.from_url(settings.redis_url, decode_responses=True)` lacks `pr
## Literal error text
```
unknown command HELLO
```
## Environment
GitHub MoHatemTC/barq-sprints-ai-servicenow-support-assistant-4 #35
## Trigger / context
## Description
When running on local Windows machines with Redis 3.0.504 (the standard version installed via `winget install Redis.Redis` as a Windows service), `redis-py` (v5+) and Celery's `kombu` transport default to the RESP3 protocol and attempt an initial `HELLO` handshake command.
Redis 3.x does not support RESP3 or the `HELLO` command, immediately throwing:
```text
redis.exceptions.ResponseError: unknown command 'HELLO'
```
## Impact
1. **Webhook Receiver:** Any incoming webhook hitting `/api/v1/events/servicenow` crashes during the deduplication check inside `src/barq_ai_support/webhook.py:_get_redis()`, because `redis.from_url(settings.redis_url, decode_responses=True)` lacks `protocol=2`.
2. **Celery Worker:** Running `uv run celery -A src.barq_ai_support.celery_app worker` crashes upon connecting to the broker and result backend. Furthermore, Celery is configured with `celery_result_backend` enabled, which performs an unsupported `HELLO` handshake even though task results
## Source evidence
- https://github.com/MoHatemTC/barq-sprints-ai-servicenow-support-assistant-4/issues/35 (2026-09-28T15:28:15Z) — #35
## Freshness
- classification: FRESH_7D
- retrieved_at: 2026-10-02T09:49:02.645589Z
- scout_id: C3f892caa2e
## Scout notes
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Problem details
Observed symptom
bug: Redis 3.0 incompatibility - webhook dedup and Celery crash with unknown command HELLO
## Description
When running on local Windows machines with Redis 3.0.504 (the standard version installed via `winget install Redis.Redis` as a Windows service), `redis-py` (v5+) and Celery's `kombu` transport default to the RESP3 protocol and attempt an initial `HELLO` handshake command.
Redis 3.x does not support RESP3 or the `HELLO` command, immediately throwing:
```text
redis.exceptions.ResponseError: unknown command 'HELLO'
```
## Impact
1. **Webhook Receiver:** Any incoming webhook hitting `/api/v1/events/servicenow` crashes during the deduplication check inside `src/barq_ai_support/webhook.py:_get_redis()`, because `redis.from_url(settings.redis_url, decode_responses=True)` lacks `pr
Context
Public GitHub report in MoHatemTC/barq-sprints-ai-servicenow-support-assistant-4 (FRESH_7D).
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