http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response

Ideas on how to resolve or mitigate:

• use urllib3.Retry like so (docs)

  adapter = HTTPAdapter(max_retries=Retry(
    total=5,
    backoff_factor=0.1,
    status_forcelist=[429, 500, 502, 503, 504],
    method_whitelist=["HEAD", "GET", "OPTIONS"]
  ))
  session = requests.Session()
  session.mount("http://", adapter)
  session.mount("https://", adapter)
  rsp = session.post(url, json=my_json, params=my_params)

• increase socket keepalive settings like so

  import socket
  from urllib3.connection import HTTPConnection
  
  HTTPConnection.default_socket_options = (
      HTTPConnection.default_socket_options + [
          (socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_KEEPALIVE, 1),
          (socket.SOL_TCP, socket.TCP_KEEPIDLE, 45),
          (socket.SOL_TCP, socket.TCP_KEEPINTVL, 10),
          (socket.SOL_TCP, socket.TCP_KEEPCNT, 6)
      ]
  )

• set keep-alive in the headers {'Connection': 'keep-alive'} this is already done by itkdb or requests by default it seems (probably because of the stream=True option

It could additionally be related to the 100 Continue mechanism that I was not expecting to exist for GET requests but...