diff --git a/Services/RequestServer/ConnectionFromClient.cpp b/Services/RequestServer/ConnectionFromClient.cpp
index 914aba69510..aef96868b54 100644
--- a/Services/RequestServer/ConnectionFromClient.cpp
+++ b/Services/RequestServer/ConnectionFromClient.cpp
@@ -631,6 +631,13 @@ void ConnectionFromClient::check_active_requests()
 
             auto result_code = msg->data.result;
 
+            // HTTPS servers might terminate their connection without proper notice of shutdown - i.e. they do not send
+            // a "close notify" alert. OpenSSL version 3.2 began treating this as an error, which curl translates to
+            // CURLE_RECV_ERROR in the absence of a Content-Length response header. The Python server used by WPT is one
+            // such server. We ignore this error if we were actually able to download some response data.
+            if (result_code == CURLE_RECV_ERROR && request->downloaded_so_far != 0 && !request->headers.contains("Content-Length"sv))
+                result_code = CURLE_OK;
+
             Optional<Requests::NetworkError> network_error;
             bool const request_was_successful = result_code == CURLE_OK;
             if (!request_was_successful) {