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The read retry (read=False) is never applied to a body already being streamed.\n\nFix status: documented_behavior\n\nLimitations:\n- Which intermediary cut the connection is environment-specific and not visible in the exception.\n\nOther error fragments:\n- IncompleteRead(%i bytes read, %i more expected)\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/92/9d/c4e665119135114480843e7ab388fa94d8480650450e6f8e26b70d323a4c/urllib3-2.8.0-py3-none-any.whl#urllib3/response.py (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): IncompleteRead during reads is re-raised as ProtocolError(f'Connection broken: {e!r}').\n- https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/92/9d/c4e665119135114480843e7ab388fa94d8480650450e6f8e26b70d323a4c/urllib3-2.8.0-py3-none-any.whl#urllib3/exceptions.py (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): IncompleteRead repr 'IncompleteRead(%i bytes read, %i more expected)'; InvalidChunkLength subclass.\n- https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a0/f4/c67b0b3f1b9245e8d266f0f112c500d50e5b4e83cb6f3b71b6528104182a/requests-2.34.2-py3-none-any.whl#requests/models.py (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): iter_content maps ProtocolError to ChunkedEncodingError.\n\nSearch phrasings: ChunkedEncodingError Connection broken IncompleteRead streaming; 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