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diff --git a/doc/http.n b/doc/http.n
index 8cd249d..a76e6ff 100644
--- a/doc/http.n
+++ b/doc/http.n
@@ -1,20 +1,21 @@
'\"
'\" Copyright (c) 1995-1997 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
'\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000 by Ajuba Solutions.
+'\" Copyright (c) 2004 ActiveState Corporation.
'\"
'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: http.n,v 1.18.2.1 2003/07/16 04:15:07 dgp Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: http.n,v 1.18.2.2 2004/05/25 22:50:46 hobbs Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
-.TH "http" n 2.4 http "Tcl Bundled Packages"
+.TH "http" n 2.5 http "Tcl Bundled Packages"
.BS
'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
.SH NAME
http \- Client-side implementation of the HTTP/1.0 protocol.
.SH SYNOPSIS
-\fBpackage require http ?2.4?\fR
+\fBpackage require http ?2.5?\fR
.sp
\fB::http::config \fI?options?\fR
.sp
@@ -108,6 +109,15 @@ an empty list. The default filter returns the values of the
\fB\-proxyhost\fR and \fB\-proxyport\fR settings if they are
non-empty.
.TP
+\fB\-urlencoding\fP \fIencoding\fP
+The \fIencoding\fR used for creating the x-url-encoded URLs with
+\fB::http::formatQuery\fR. The default is \fButf-8\fR, as specified by RFC
+2718. Prior to http 2.5 this was unspecified, and that behavior can be
+returned by specifying the empty string (\fB{}\fR), although
+\fIiso8859-1\fR is recommended to restore similar behavior but without the
+\fB::http::formatQuery\fR throwing an error processing non-latin-1
+characters.
+.TP
\fB\-useragent\fP \fIstring\fP
The value of the User-Agent header in the HTTP request. The default
is \fB"Tcl http client package 2.4."\fR