diff --git a/llmx/generators/text/openai_textgen.py b/llmx/generators/text/openai_textgen.py
index fe11e81..be598bb 100644
--- a/llmx/generators/text/openai_textgen.py
+++ b/llmx/generators/text/openai_textgen.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import os
 from openai import AzureOpenAI, OpenAI
 from dataclasses import asdict
+import httpx
 
 
 class OpenAITextGenerator(TextGenerator):
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ def __init__(
         azure_endpoint: str = None,
         model: str = None,
         models: Dict = None,
+        http_client: httpx.Client = None,
     ):
         super().__init__(provider=provider)
         self.api_key = api_key or os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY", None)
@@ -32,6 +34,7 @@ def __init__(
             "organization": organization,
             "api_version": api_version,
             "azure_endpoint": azure_endpoint,
+            "http_client": http_client
         }
         # remove keys with None values
         self.client_args = {k: v for k,
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 17309ef..2d96846 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "google.auth",
     "typer",
     "pyyaml",
+    "httpx",
 ]
 optional-dependencies = {web = ["fastapi", "uvicorn"], transformers = ["transformers[torch]>=4.26","accelerate"]}