From 11aef219f5186fcb9b8121651e5bdbd7e84c3a4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?B=C3=A9n=C3=A9dikt=20Tran?=
 <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:12:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gh-141938: document treatment of `OSError` raised by
 `HTTPConnection.getresponse` (#142339)

---
 Doc/library/http.client.rst | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/http.client.rst b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
index 7c258b324d98..ddf3d40d221f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.client.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
@@ -319,6 +319,12 @@ HTTPConnection Objects
       :class:`str` or bytes-like object that is not also a file as the
       body representation.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      Note that you must have read the whole response or call :meth:`close`
+      if :meth:`getresponse` raised an non-:exc:`ConnectionError` exception
+      before you can send a new request to the server.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.2
       *body* can now be an iterable.
 
@@ -334,16 +340,15 @@ HTTPConnection Objects
    Should be called after a request is sent to get the response from the server.
    Returns an :class:`HTTPResponse` instance.
 
-   .. note::
-
-      Note that you must have read the whole response before you can send a new
-      request to the server.
-
    .. versionchanged:: 3.5
       If a :exc:`ConnectionError` or subclass is raised, the
       :class:`HTTPConnection` object will be ready to reconnect when
       a new request is sent.
 
+      Note that this does not apply to :exc:`OSError`\s raised by the underlying
+      socket. Instead the caller is responsible to call :meth:`close` on the
+      existing connection.
+
 
 .. method:: HTTPConnection.set_debuglevel(level)
 
-- 
2.47.3