diff --git a/news/85016e72-3c01-455a-ad4e-e25f676c7381.trivial b/news/85016e72-3c01-455a-ad4e-e25f676c7381.trivial
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/index.py b/src/pip/_internal/index.py
index f251c4b58b6..8af659634de 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/index.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/index.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 from pip._vendor.packaging import specifiers
 from pip._vendor.packaging.utils import canonicalize_name
 from pip._vendor.packaging.version import parse as parse_version
-from pip._vendor.requests.exceptions import RetryError, SSLError
+from pip._vendor.requests.exceptions import HTTPError, RetryError, SSLError
 from pip._vendor.six.moves.urllib import parse as urllib_parse
 from pip._vendor.six.moves.urllib import request as urllib_request
 
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ def _get_html_page(link, session=None):
             'Skipping page %s because the %s request got Content-Type: %s',
             link, exc.request_desc, exc.content_type,
         )
-    except requests.HTTPError as exc:
+    except HTTPError as exc:
         _handle_get_page_fail(link, exc)
     except RetryError as exc:
         _handle_get_page_fail(link, exc)