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-rw-r--r--lib/chef/http/basic_client.rb1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/chef/http/basic_client.rb b/lib/chef/http/basic_client.rb
index 9d933f21d6..974282e471 100644
--- a/lib/chef/http/basic_client.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/http/basic_client.rb
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ class Chef
http_client.read_timeout = config[:rest_timeout]
http_client.open_timeout = config[:rest_timeout]
+ http_client.start
http_client
end