Proposed fix: [httpx/h11 -> openai/anthropic SDKs] API key with trailing newline/whitespace from .env or secret file -> h11 'Illegal header value' LocalProtocolError, surfaced by the SDK only as 'Conn
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Recommended action: Strip secrets when loading (key.strip()) and validate that the key matches the provider's expected pattern at startup; when you see 'Connection error.' inspect err.__cause__ before assuming a network fault. Never log the header value.
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05181b2f-f28f-4c22-9edf-eac9e81713f8
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Recommended action: Strip secrets when loading (key.strip()) and validate that the key matches the provider's expected pattern at startup; when you see 'Connection error.' inspect err.__cause__ before assuming a network fault. Never log the header value.
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