diff --git a/docs/user/advanced.rst b/docs/user/advanced.rst index 38fec5072b..94e8657b8d 100644 --- a/docs/user/advanced.rst +++ b/docs/user/advanced.rst @@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ 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 to slightly larger than a multiple of 3, which is the default `TCP packet -retransmission window `_. +retransmission window `_. Once your client has connected to the server and sent the HTTP request, the **read** timeout is the number of seconds the client will wait for the server