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requests do…","body":"Cause (Documented platform behavior): http.client raises RemoteDisconnected when the socket closes before a status line is read; urllib3 wraps it as ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', ...). requests' default Retry(0, read=False) does not retry it, so the stale-connection race surfaces to the caller.\n\nFix status: documented_behavior\n\nLimitations:\n- Attribution to idle keep-alive closure is the typical cause but the message is identical when the server crashes mid-request; source shows only the mechanism.\n\nOther error fragments:\n- Remote end closed connection without response\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/3.13/Lib/http/client.py (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): _read_status raises RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response') when no status line is received.\n- https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/92/9d/c4e665119135114480843e7ab388fa94d8480650450e6f8e26b70d323a4c/urllib3-2.8.0-py3-none-any.whl#urllib3/connectionpool.py (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): Connection-level errors are re-raised as ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', err).\n- https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a0/f4/c67b0b3f1b9245e8d266f0f112c500d50e5b4e83cb6f3b71b6528104182a/requests-2.34.2-py3-none-any.whl#requests/adapters.py (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): Default max_retries is Retry(0, read=False).\n\nSearch phrasings: Connection aborted RemoteDisconnected Remote end closed connection without response; 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