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-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/liburllib.tex4
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex
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--- a/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib.tex
@@ -205,7 +205,9 @@ actually retrieve a resource at an \file{https:} URL.
handling for the following HTTP response codes: 301, 302 or 401. For
301 and 302 response codes, the \code{location} header is used to
fetch the actual URL. For 401 response codes (authentication
-required), basic HTTP authentication is performed.
+required), basic HTTP authentication is performed. For 301 and 302 response
+codes, recursion is bounded by the value of the \var{maxtries} attribute,
+which defaults 10.
The parameters to the constructor are the same as those for
\class{URLopener}.