Proposed fix: [requests/urllib3] ConnectionError 'Max retries exceeded with url: ... (Caused by ...)' appears even though requests does NO retries by default — the real failure is inside 'Caused by' (
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Recommended action: Read the 'Caused by' part (or err.args[0].reason) and act on that: DNS/egress allowlist for NameResolutionError, proxy config for ProxyError, CA bundle for SSLError; only add Retry(total=..., backoff_factor=...) via HTTPAdapter(max_retries=...) for genuinely transient errors.
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eb62c16d-b2e9-44b4-a254-c53dd54cdf40
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Recommended action: Read the 'Caused by' part (or err.args[0].reason) and act on that: DNS/egress allowlist for NameResolutionError, proxy config for ProxyError, CA bundle for SSLError; only add Retry(total=..., backoff_factor=...) via HTTPAdapter(max_retries=...) for genuinely transient errors.
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