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-rw-r--r--requests/adapters.py6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/requests/adapters.py b/requests/adapters.py
index aae42bd7..40088900 100644
--- a/requests/adapters.py
+++ b/requests/adapters.py
@@ -60,8 +60,10 @@ class HTTPAdapter(BaseAdapter):
:param pool_connections: The number of urllib3 connection pools to cache.
:param pool_maxsize: The maximum number of connections to save in the pool.
:param int max_retries: The maximum number of retries each connection
- should attempt. Note, this applies only to failed connections and
- timeouts, never to requests where the server returns a response.
+ should attempt. Note, this applies only to failed DNS lookups, socket
+ connections and connection timeouts, never to requests where data has
+ made it to the server. By default, Requests does not retry failed
+ connections.
:param pool_block: Whether the connection pool should block for connections.
Usage::