diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 628a0dbea6..3b34dec8ae 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ module = [
     "tornado.*",
     "twitter.*",
     "two_factor.*",
-    "urllib3.*",
     "zxcvbn.*",
 ]
 ignore_missing_imports = true
diff --git a/zerver/lib/outgoing_http.py b/zerver/lib/outgoing_http.py
index d0fc93dae3..dbeed92774 100644
--- a/zerver/lib/outgoing_http.py
+++ b/zerver/lib/outgoing_http.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
 
 import requests
-from urllib3 import HTTPResponse
 
 
 class OutgoingSession(requests.Session):
@@ -18,12 +17,12 @@ class OutgoingHTTPAdapter(requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter):
     role: str
     timeout: int
 
-    def __init__(self, role: str, timeout: int, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
+    def __init__(self, role: str, timeout: int) -> None:
         self.role = role
         self.timeout = timeout
-        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        super().__init__()
 
-    def send(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> HTTPResponse:
+    def send(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> requests.Response:
         if kwargs.get("timeout") is None:
             kwargs["timeout"] = self.timeout
         return super().send(*args, **kwargs)