[PR #9713/500a021 backport][3.10] Small cleanups to creating a ClientRequest

[bdraco]

(cherry picked from commit 500a021)

[codspeed-hq]

CodSpeed Performance Report

Merging #9716 will not alter performance

_{Comparing patchback/backports/3.10/500a02194cc30a1c15b900269882bdc62115c7c8/pr-9713 (e9c04da) with 3.10 (b1bd55b)}

Summary

✅ 14 untouched benchmarks

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Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 97.87%. Comparing base (b1bd55b) to head (e9c04da).
Report is 49 commits behind head on 3.10.

✅ All tests successful. No failed tests found.

Additional details and impacted files

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- Coverage   97.87%   97.87%   -0.01%     
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  Lines       35527    35525       -2     
  Branches     4269     4268       -1     
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- Hits        34772    34769       -3     
  Misses        564      564              
- Partials      191      192       +1     

Flag	Coverage Δ
CI-GHA	97.76% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
OS-Linux	97.45% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
OS-Windows	95.02% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
OS-macOS	97.15% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
Py-3.10.11	97.01% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
Py-3.10.15	96.95% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
Py-3.11.10	97.02% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
Py-3.11.9	97.10% <100.00%> (+0.01%)	⬆️
Py-3.12.7	97.48% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
Py-3.13.0	97.47% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
Py-3.8.10	94.41% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
Py-3.8.18	96.74% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
Py-3.9.13	96.92% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
Py-3.9.20	96.87% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
Py-pypy7.3.16	96.47% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
VM-macos	97.15% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
VM-ubuntu	97.45% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️
VM-windows	95.02% <100.00%> (-0.01%)	⬇️

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