diff --git a/lib/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py b/lib/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
index e232aa883..a952828fb 100644
--- a/lib/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
+++ b/lib/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py
@@ -1036,13 +1036,14 @@ def _webpage_read_content(self, urlh, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errno
         webpage_bytes = urlh.read()
         if prefix is not None:
             webpage_bytes = prefix + webpage_bytes
-        url_or_request = self._create_request(url_or_request, data)
         if self.get_param('dump_intermediate_pages', False):
             self.to_screen('Dumping request to ' + urlh.url)
             dump = base64.b64encode(webpage_bytes).decode('ascii')
             self._downloader.to_screen(dump)
         if self.get_param('write_pages'):
-            filename = self._request_dump_filename(urlh.url, video_id, url_or_request.data)
+            if isinstance(url_or_request, Request):
+                data = self._create_request(url_or_request, data).data
+            filename = self._request_dump_filename(urlh.url, video_id, data)
             self.to_screen(f'Saving request to {filename}')
             with open(filename, 'wb') as outf:
                 outf.write(webpage_bytes)
diff --git a/lib/yt_dlp/networking/common.py b/lib/yt_dlp/networking/common.py
index a2217034c..d473e16c5 100644
--- a/lib/yt_dlp/networking/common.py
+++ b/lib/yt_dlp/networking/common.py
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 )
 from ..utils.networking import HTTPHeaderDict, normalize_url
 
+DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 20
+
 
 def register_preference(*handlers: type[RequestHandler]):
     assert all(issubclass(handler, RequestHandler) for handler in handlers)
@@ -235,7 +237,7 @@ def __init__(
         self._logger = logger
         self.headers = headers or {}
         self.cookiejar = cookiejar if cookiejar is not None else YoutubeDLCookieJar()
-        self.timeout = float(timeout or 20)
+        self.timeout = float(timeout or DEFAULT_TIMEOUT)
         self.proxies = proxies or {}
         self.source_address = source_address
         self.verbose = verbose
diff --git a/lib/yt_dlp_version b/lib/yt_dlp_version
index 1d2f1da02..f15ff5e47 100644
--- a/lib/yt_dlp_version
+++ b/lib/yt_dlp_version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-12d8ea8246fa901de302ff5cc748caddadc82f41
\ No newline at end of file
+53b4d44f55cca66ac33dab092ef2a30b1164b684
\ No newline at end of file