diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8b672c74..d29f0d4e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 6.23.0 - May 21, 2025
+* Introduces --http-resilience flag for the os-update command which runs a scraper with techniques to avoid getting
+  disconnected from a source server.
+
 ## 6.22.3 - May 14, 2025
 * Use DAG run start time for archiving scrape output
 
diff --git a/openstates/cli/update.py b/openstates/cli/update.py
index 4b0a702c..0f707389 100644
--- a/openstates/cli/update.py
+++ b/openstates/cli/update.py
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ def do_scrape(
         fastmode=args.fastmode,
         realtime=args.realtime,
         file_archiving_enabled=args.archive,
+        http_resilience_mode=args.http_resilience,
     )
     report["jurisdiction"] = jscraper.do_scrape()
     stats.write_stats(
@@ -130,6 +131,7 @@ def do_scrape(
                     fastmode=args.fastmode,
                     realtime=args.realtime,
                     file_archiving_enabled=args.archive,
+                    http_resilience_mode=args.http_resilience,
                 )
                 partial_report = scraper.do_scrape(**scrape_args, session=session)
                 stats.write_stats(
@@ -163,6 +165,7 @@ def do_scrape(
                 fastmode=args.fastmode,
                 realtime=args.realtime,
                 file_archiving_enabled=args.archive,
+                http_resilience_mode=args.http_resilience,
             )
             report[scraper_name] = scraper.do_scrape(**scrape_args)
             session = scrape_args.get("session", "")
@@ -554,6 +557,13 @@ def parse_args() -> tuple[argparse.Namespace, list[str]]:
         dest="SCRAPELIB_RETRY_WAIT_SECONDS",
     )
 
+    # HTTP resilience mode: enable random delays, user agents, more complicated retries
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--http-resilience",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="enable HTTP resilience mode, defaults to false",
+    )
+
     # realtime mode
     parser.add_argument("--realtime", action="store_true", help="enable realtime mode")
 
diff --git a/openstates/scrape/base.py b/openstates/scrape/base.py
index 0408b2ff..783b9460 100644
--- a/openstates/scrape/base.py
+++ b/openstates/scrape/base.py
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 import boto3  # noqa
 import datetime
+from http.client import RemoteDisconnected
 import importlib
 import json
 import jsonschema
 import logging
 import os
+import random
+import requests
 import scrapelib
+import time
+from urllib.error import URLError
 import uuid
 from collections import defaultdict, OrderedDict
 from jsonschema import Draft3Validator, FormatChecker
@@ -66,18 +71,35 @@ def clean_whitespace(obj):
     return obj
 
 
+def get_random_user_agent():
+    """
+    Return a random user agent to help avoid detection.
+    """
+    user_agents = [
+        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36",
+        "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.1 Safari/605.1.15",
+        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0",
+        "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36",
+        "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1",
+        "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 14_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1",
+        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36 Edg/91.0.864.59",
+    ]
+    return random.choice(user_agents)
+
+
 class Scraper(scrapelib.Scraper):
     """Base class for all scrapers"""
 
     def __init__(
-        self,
-        jurisdiction,
-        datadir,
-        *,
-        strict_validation=True,
-        fastmode=False,
-        realtime=False,
-        file_archiving_enabled=False,
+            self,
+            jurisdiction,
+            datadir,
+            *,
+            strict_validation=True,
+            fastmode=False,
+            realtime=False,
+            file_archiving_enabled=False,
+            http_resilience_mode=False,
     ):
         super(Scraper, self).__init__()
 
@@ -94,6 +116,19 @@ def __init__(
         self.retry_wait_seconds = settings.SCRAPELIB_RETRY_WAIT_SECONDS
         self.verify = settings.SCRAPELIB_VERIFY
 
+        # HTTP connection resilience settings
+        self.http_resilience_mode = http_resilience_mode
+        self.http_resilience_headers = {}
+        # http resilience: Set up a circuit breaker to track consecutive failures
+        self._consecutive_failures = 0
+        self._max_consecutive_failures = 3
+        self._circuit_breaker_timeout = 120  # 2 minutes
+        # http resilience: Set up connection pool reset
+        self._last_reset_time = time.time()
+        self._reset_interval = 600  # Reset connection pool every 10 minutes
+        self._random_delay_on_failure_min = 5
+        self._random_delay_on_failure_max = 15
+
         # output
         self.output_file_path = None
 
@@ -126,6 +161,10 @@ def __init__(
             handler = importlib.import_module(modname)
             self.scrape_output_handler = handler.Handler(self)
 
+        if self.http_resilience_mode:
+            self.headers["User-Agent"] = get_random_user_agent()
+            self._create_fresh_session()
+
     def push_to_queue(self):
         """Push this output to the sqs for realtime imports."""
 
@@ -185,9 +224,8 @@ def save_object(self, obj):
 
             # Remove redundant prefix
             try:
-                upload_file_path = file_path[
-                    file_path.index("_data") + len("_data") + 1 :
-                ]
+                index = file_path.index("_data") + len("_data") + 1
+                upload_file_path = file_path[index:]
             except Exception:
                 upload_file_path = file_path
 
@@ -268,6 +306,165 @@ def scrape(self, **kwargs):
             self.__class__.__name__ + " must provide a scrape() method"
         )
 
+    def request_resiliently(self, request_func):
+        try:
+            # Reset connection pool if needed
+            self._reset_connection_pool_if_needed()
+
+            # Add a random delay between processing items
+            self.add_random_delay(1, 3)
+
+            # If we've had too many consecutive failures, pause for a while
+            if self._consecutive_failures >= self._max_consecutive_failures:
+                self.logger.warning(
+                    f"Circuit breaker triggered after {self._consecutive_failures} consecutive failures. "
+                    f"Pausing for {self._circuit_breaker_timeout} seconds."
+                )
+                time.sleep(self._circuit_breaker_timeout)
+                self._consecutive_failures = 0
+
+                # Rotate user agent after circuit breaker timeout
+                self.headers["User-Agent"] = get_random_user_agent()
+
+            response = self.retry_on_connection_error(
+                request_func,
+                max_retries=3,
+                initial_backoff=10,
+                max_backoff=120,
+            )
+
+            # Reset consecutive failures counter on success
+            self._consecutive_failures = 0
+
+            return response
+        except Exception as e:
+            self._consecutive_failures += 1
+            self.logger.error(f"Error processing item: {e}")
+
+            # If it's a connection error, add a longer delay
+            if isinstance(e, (ConnectionError, RemoteDisconnected)):
+                self.logger.warning("Connection error. Adding longer delay.")
+                self.add_random_delay(self._random_delay_on_failure_min, self._random_delay_on_failure_max)
+
+                # Rotate user agent after connection error
+                self.headers["User-Agent"] = get_random_user_agent()
+
+    def get(self, url, **kwargs):
+        request_func = lambda: super(Scraper, self).get(url, **kwargs)  # noqa: E731
+        if self.http_resilience_mode:
+            return self.request_resiliently(request_func)
+        else:
+            return super().get(url, **kwargs)
+
+    def post(self, url, data=None, json=None, **kwargs):
+        request_func = lambda: super(Scraper, self).post(url, data=data, json=json ** kwargs)  # noqa: E731
+        if self.http_resilience_mode:
+            return self.request_resiliently(request_func)
+        else:
+            return super().post(url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)
+
+    def retry_on_connection_error(self, func, max_retries=5, initial_backoff=2, max_backoff=60):
+        """
+        Retry a function call on connection errors with exponential backoff.
+
+        Args:
+            func: Function to call
+            max_retries: Maximum number of retries
+            initial_backoff: Initial backoff time in seconds
+            max_backoff: Maximum backoff time in seconds
+
+        Returns:
+            The result of the function call
+        """
+        retries = 0
+        backoff = initial_backoff
+
+        while True:
+            try:
+                return func()
+            except (
+                    ConnectionError,
+                    RemoteDisconnected,
+                    URLError,
+                    requests.exceptions.Timeout,
+                    requests.exceptions.RequestException,
+            ) as e:
+                retries += 1
+                if retries > max_retries:
+                    self.logger.error(f"Max retries ({max_retries}) exceeded. Last error: {e}")
+                    raise
+
+                # Calculate backoff with jitter
+                jitter = random.uniform(0.8, 1.2)
+                current_backoff = min(backoff * jitter, max_backoff)
+
+                self.logger.warning(
+                    f"Connection error: {e}. Retrying in {current_backoff:.2f} seconds (attempt {retries}/{max_retries})"
+                )
+                time.sleep(current_backoff)
+
+                # Increase backoff for next retry
+                backoff = min(backoff * 2, max_backoff)
+
+    def _create_fresh_session(self):
+        """
+        Create a fresh session with appropriate settings.
+        """
+        if hasattr(self, "session"):
+            self.session.close()
+
+        # Create a new session
+        self.session = requests.Session()
+
+        # Set any custom headers
+        self.session.headers.update(self.http_resilience_headers)
+
+        # Set up retry mechanism
+        adapter = requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter(
+            max_retries=self.retry_attempts,
+            pool_connections=10,
+            pool_maxsize=10,
+            pool_block=False,
+        )
+        self.session.mount("http://", adapter)
+        self.session.mount("https://", adapter)
+
+        self.headers["User-Agent"] = get_random_user_agent()
+
+        self.logger.info(
+            f"Created fresh session with user agent: {self.headers['User-Agent']}"
+        )
+
+        return self.session
+
+    def _reset_connection_pool_if_needed(self):
+        """
+        Reset the connection pool if it's been too long since the last reset.
+        This helps prevent "Remote end closed connection without response" errors.
+        """
+        current_time = time.time()
+        if current_time - self._last_reset_time > self._reset_interval:
+            self.logger.info(
+                f"Resetting connection pool after {self._reset_interval} seconds"
+            )
+
+            # Create a fresh session
+            self._create_fresh_session()
+
+            self._last_reset_time = current_time
+
+    def add_random_delay(self, min_seconds=1, max_seconds=3):
+        """
+        Add a random delay to simulate human behavior.
+
+        Args:
+            min_seconds: Minimum delay in seconds
+            max_seconds: Maximum delay in seconds
+        """
+        delay = random.uniform(min_seconds, max_seconds)
+        self.logger.debug(f"Adding random delay of {delay:.2f} seconds")
+        time.sleep(delay)
+
 
 class BaseBillScraper(Scraper):
     skipped = 0
@@ -400,15 +597,15 @@ def add_link(self, url, *, note=""):
 
 class AssociatedLinkMixin(object):
     def _add_associated_link(
-        self,
-        collection,
-        note,
-        url,
-        *,
-        media_type,
-        on_duplicate="warn",
-        date="",
-        classification="",
+            self,
+            collection,
+            note,
+            url,
+            *,
+            media_type,
+            on_duplicate="warn",
+            date="",
+            classification="",
     ):
         if on_duplicate not in ["error", "ignore", "warn"]:
             raise ScrapeValueError("on_duplicate must be 'warn', 'error' or 'ignore'")
@@ -435,7 +632,7 @@ def _add_associated_link(
                 seen_links.add(link["url"])
 
             if all(
-                ver.get(x) == item.get(x) for x in ["note", "date", "classification"]
+                    ver.get(x) == item.get(x) for x in ["note", "date", "classification"]
             ):
                 matches = matches + 1
                 ver = item
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cfbaf4b9..945127de 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "openstates"
-version = "6.22.3"
+version = "6.23.0"
 description = "core infrastructure for the openstates project"
 authors = ["James Turk <dev@jamesturk.net>"]
 license = "MIT"