diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index ff19dde..f27b786 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Justin Myers for Adafruit Industries
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Diego Elio Pettenò
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Justin Myers
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense
 
diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
index 33c2a61..88bca9f 100644
--- a/.readthedocs.yaml
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 # Required
 version: 2
 
+sphinx:
+  configuration: docs/conf.py
+
 build:
   os: ubuntu-20.04
   tools:
diff --git a/adafruit_requests.py b/adafruit_requests.py
index f0c9e65..5bcf0e4 100644
--- a/adafruit_requests.py
+++ b/adafruit_requests.py
@@ -622,6 +622,10 @@ def request(  # noqa: PLR0912,PLR0913,PLR0915 Too many branches,Too many argumen
 
         # We may fail to send the request if the socket we got is closed already. So, try a second
         # time in that case.
+        # Note that the loop below actually tries a second time in other failure cases too,
+        # namely timeout and no data from socket. This was not covered in the stated intent of the
+        # commit that introduced the loop, but removing the retry from those cases could prove
+        # problematic to callers that now depend on that resiliency.
         retry_count = 0
         last_exc = None
         while retry_count < 2:
@@ -643,17 +647,23 @@ def request(  # noqa: PLR0912,PLR0913,PLR0915 Too many branches,Too many argumen
             if ok:
                 # Read the H of "HTTP/1.1" to make sure the socket is alive. send can appear to work
                 # even when the socket is closed.
-                if hasattr(socket, "recv"):
-                    result = socket.recv(1)
-                else:
-                    result = bytearray(1)
-                    try:
+                # Both recv/recv_into can raise OSError; when that happens, we need to call
+                # _connection_manager.close_socket(socket) or future calls to
+                # _connection_manager.get_socket() for the same parameter set will fail
+                try:
+                    if hasattr(socket, "recv"):
+                        result = socket.recv(1)
+                    else:
+                        result = bytearray(1)
                         socket.recv_into(result)
-                    except OSError:
-                        pass
-                if result == b"H":
-                    # Things seem to be ok so break with socket set.
-                    break
+                    if result == b"H":
+                        # Things seem to be ok so break with socket set.
+                        break
+                    else:
+                        raise RuntimeError("no data from socket")
+                except (OSError, RuntimeError) as exc:
+                    last_exc = exc
+                    pass
             self._connection_manager.close_socket(socket)
             socket = None
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index f3a8700..689c1af 100755
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@
 import sphinx_rtd_theme
 
 html_theme = "sphinx_rtd_theme"
-html_theme_path = [sphinx_rtd_theme.get_html_theme_path(), "."]
 
 # Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
 # relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
diff --git a/examples/esp32spi/requests_esp32spi_advanced.py b/examples/esp32spi/requests_esp32spi_advanced.py
index 6754dbf..170589f 100644
--- a/examples/esp32spi/requests_esp32spi_advanced.py
+++ b/examples/esp32spi/requests_esp32spi_advanced.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     except RuntimeError as e:
         print("could not connect to AP, retrying: ", e)
         continue
-print("Connected to", str(radio.ssid, "utf-8"), "\tRSSI:", radio.rssi)
+print("Connected to", str(radio.ap_info.ssid, "utf-8"), "\tRSSI:", radio.ap_info.rssi)
 
 # Initialize a requests session
 pool = adafruit_connection_manager.get_radio_socketpool(radio)
diff --git a/examples/esp32spi/requests_esp32spi_simpletest.py b/examples/esp32spi/requests_esp32spi_simpletest.py
index 8a61209..3e856c0 100644
--- a/examples/esp32spi/requests_esp32spi_simpletest.py
+++ b/examples/esp32spi/requests_esp32spi_simpletest.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
     except RuntimeError as e:
         print("could not connect to AP, retrying: ", e)
         continue
-print("Connected to", str(radio.ssid, "utf-8"), "\tRSSI:", radio.rssi)
+print("Connected to", str(radio.ap_info.ssid, "utf-8"), "\tRSSI:", radio.ap_info.rssi)
 
 # Initialize a requests session
 pool = adafruit_connection_manager.get_radio_socketpool(radio)