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Expand Up @@ -1094,7 +1094,8 @@ hang for minutes or more.

The **connect** timeout is the number of seconds Requests will wait for your
client to establish a connection to a remote machine (corresponding to the
`connect()`_) call on the socket. It's a good practice to set connect timeouts
`connect()`_) call on the socket. The connect timeout also includes the time
to send the request body. It's a good practice to set connect timeouts
to slightly larger than a multiple of 3, which is the default `TCP packet
retransmission window <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2988>`_.

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