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authordkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2011-07-08 12:35:02 (GMT)
committerdkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2011-07-08 12:35:02 (GMT)
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[FRQ 3358415]: Minor doc improvement
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@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
+2011-07-08 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net>
+
+ * doc/http.n: [FRQ 3358415]: State what RFC defines HTTP/1.1.
+
2011-07-07 Miguel Sofer <msofer@users.sf.net>
* generic/tclBasic.c: add missing INT2PTR
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+
2011-07-03 Donal K. Fellows <dkf@users.sf.net>
* doc/FileSystem.3: Corrected statements about ctime field of 'struct
diff --git a/doc/http.n b/doc/http.n
index f450ad4..b05588e 100644
--- a/doc/http.n
+++ b/doc/http.n
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ http \- Client-side implementation of the HTTP/1.1 protocol
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
The \fBhttp\fR package provides the client side of the HTTP/1.1
-protocol. The package implements the GET, POST, and HEAD operations
+protocol, as defined in RFC 2616.
+The package implements the GET, POST, and HEAD operations
of HTTP/1.1. It allows configuration of a proxy host to get through
firewalls. The package is compatible with the \fBSafesock\fR security
policy, so it can be used by untrusted applets to do URL fetching from