diff --git a/dialogue-apache-hc5-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/hc5/ApacheHttpClientBlockingChannel.java b/dialogue-apache-hc5-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/hc5/ApacheHttpClientBlockingChannel.java
index 43a6df5824..aad97fc336 100644
--- a/dialogue-apache-hc5-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/hc5/ApacheHttpClientBlockingChannel.java
+++ b/dialogue-apache-hc5-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/hc5/ApacheHttpClientBlockingChannel.java
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ConnectTimeoutException;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.ExecRuntime;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpResponse;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.io.ConnectionEndpoint;
 import org.apache.hc.client5.http.protocol.HttpClientContext;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.function.Supplier;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.Header;
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.NoHttpResponseException;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.support.ClassicRequestBuilder;
 import org.apache.hc.core5.http.message.BasicHeader;
+import org.apache.hc.core5.util.Timeout;
 
 final class ApacheHttpClientBlockingChannel implements BlockingChannel {
     private static final SafeLogger log = SafeLoggerFactory.get(ApacheHttpClientBlockingChannel.class);
@@ -347,6 +349,15 @@ public void close() {
                     if (hasSubstantialRemainingData(response)) {
                         ExecRuntime runtime = HttpClientExecRuntimeAttributeInterceptor.get(context);
                         if (runtime != null) {
+                            // Attempt to set the smallest possible socket timeout before closing the connection.
+                            // In some degenerate cases, remote servers may not close connections, causing the client
+                            // to consume network resources and time in SSLSocketInputRecord.deplete.
+                            ConnectionEndpoint maybeEndpoint = ConnectionEndpointAccess.getConnectionEndpoint(runtime);
+                            assert maybeEndpoint != null || !runtime.isEndpointConnected()
+                                    : "Expected ConnectionEndpointAccess.getConnectionEndpoint to extract a ConnectionEndpoint";
+                            if (maybeEndpoint != null) {
+                                maybeEndpoint.setSocketTimeout(Timeout.ONE_MILLISECOND);
+                            }
                             runtime.discardEndpoint();
                             // Constructing the new metrics component in the unexpected case is more efficient than
                             // creating the meter for hundreds of services which never hit this case.
diff --git a/dialogue-apache-hc5-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/hc5/ConnectionEndpointAccess.java b/dialogue-apache-hc5-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/hc5/ConnectionEndpointAccess.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b3c6644ac4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dialogue-apache-hc5-client/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/hc5/ConnectionEndpointAccess.java
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+/*
+ * (c) Copyright 2023 Palantir Technologies Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.palantir.dialogue.hc5;
+
+import com.palantir.logsafe.logger.SafeLogger;
+import com.palantir.logsafe.logger.SafeLoggerFactory;
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.ExecRuntime;
+import org.apache.hc.client5.http.io.ConnectionEndpoint;
+
+final class ConnectionEndpointAccess {
+
+    private static final SafeLogger log = SafeLoggerFactory.get(ConnectionEndpointAccess.class);
+
+    private static final String INTERNAL_EXEC_RUNTIME_FQCN =
+            "org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.InternalExecRuntime";
+
+    @Nullable
+    private static final Class<? extends ExecRuntime> INTERNAL_EXEC_RUNTIME_CLASS = findInternalExecRuntime();
+
+    @Nullable
+    private static final Method ENSURE_VALID_METHOD = findEnsureValid(INTERNAL_EXEC_RUNTIME_CLASS);
+
+    @Nullable
+    static ConnectionEndpoint getConnectionEndpoint(@Nullable ExecRuntime runtime) {
+        if (ENSURE_VALID_METHOD != null
+                && INTERNAL_EXEC_RUNTIME_CLASS != null
+                && INTERNAL_EXEC_RUNTIME_CLASS.isInstance(runtime)) {
+            try {
+                return (ConnectionEndpoint) ENSURE_VALID_METHOD.invoke(runtime);
+            } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
+                if (e.getCause() instanceof IllegalStateException) {
+                    log.debug("Connection not acquired or already released", e);
+                } else {
+                    log.warn("Failed to extract a ConnectionEndpoint from ExecRuntime", e);
+                }
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                log.warn("Failed to extract a ConnectionEndpoint from ExecRuntime", t);
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    @Nullable
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    private static Class<? extends ExecRuntime> findInternalExecRuntime() {
+        try {
+            return (Class<? extends ExecRuntime>)
+                    Class.forName(INTERNAL_EXEC_RUNTIME_FQCN, false, ExecRuntime.class.getClassLoader());
+        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Nullable
+    private static Method findEnsureValid(@Nullable Class<? extends ExecRuntime> internalExecRuntime) {
+        if (internalExecRuntime != null) {
+            try {
+                Method method = internalExecRuntime.getDeclaredMethod("ensureValid");
+                method.setAccessible(true);
+                return method;
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                log.info("Failed to load the 'ensureValid' method on InternalExecRuntime", t);
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    private ConnectionEndpointAccess() {}
+}