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diff --git a/Doc/library/http.client.rst b/Doc/library/http.client.rst index 380f52b..be10e4b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/http.client.rst +++ b/Doc/library/http.client.rst @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ -------------- -This module defines classes which implement the client side of the HTTP and +This module defines classes that implement the client side of the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It is normally not used directly --- the module :mod:`urllib.request` uses it to handle URLs that use HTTP and HTTPS. @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ The module provides the following classes: blocksize=8192) An :class:`HTTPConnection` instance represents one transaction with an HTTP - server. It should be instantiated passing it a host and optional port + server. It should be instantiated by passing it a host and optional port number. If no port number is passed, the port is extracted from the host string if it has the form ``host:port``, else the default HTTP port (80) is used. If the optional *timeout* parameter is given, blocking |