Ticket [4f511270af7]: http documentation: -query data may be any data

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/http.n b/doc/http.n
index ae298b2..cbef2ab 100644
--- a/doc/http.n
+++ b/doc/http.n
@@ -319,9 +319,11 @@ otherwise complain about HTTP/1.1.
 \fB\-query\fR \fIquery\fR
 .
 This flag causes \fB::http::geturl\fR to do a POST request that passes the
-\fIquery\fR to the server. The \fIquery\fR must be an x-url-encoding
-formatted query.  The \fB::http::formatQuery\fR procedure can be used to
-do the formatting.
+\fIquery\fR as payload verbatim to the server.
+The content format (and encoding) of \fIquery\fR is announced by the header
+field \fBcontent-type\fR set by the option \fB-type\fR.
+\fIquery\fR is an x-url-encoding formatted query, if used for html forms.
+The \fB::http::formatQuery\fR procedure can be used to do the formatting.
 .TP
 \fB\-queryblocksize\fR \fIsize\fR
 .