From 71de040b82362c4604d72fba15ab15f02b3d75b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:15:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] bug [ 1202475 ] httplib docs mentioning
 HTTPConnection.getreply

---
 Doc/lib/libhttplib.tex | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libhttplib.tex b/Doc/lib/libhttplib.tex
index ed15e73d4e4..d08bc90dc7b 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libhttplib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libhttplib.tex
@@ -304,6 +304,8 @@ with the request.
 \begin{methoddesc}{getresponse}{}
 Should be called after a request is sent to get the response from the server.
 Returns an \class{HTTPResponse} instance.
+\note{Note that you must have read the whole response before you can send a new
+request to the server.}
 \end{methoddesc}
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{set_debuglevel}{level}
@@ -320,11 +322,9 @@ Connect to the server specified when the object was created.
 Close the connection to the server.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
-\begin{methoddesc}{send}{data}
-Send data to the server.  This should be used directly only after the
-\method{endheaders()} method has been called and before
-\method{getreply()} has been called.
-\end{methoddesc}
+As an alternative to using the \method{request()} method described above,
+you can also send your request step by step, by using the four functions
+below.
 
 \begin{methoddesc}{putrequest}{request, selector\optional{,
 skip\_host\optional{, skip_accept_encoding}}}
@@ -349,6 +349,11 @@ each consisting of a tab and an argument.
 Send a blank line to the server, signalling the end of the headers.
 \end{methoddesc}
 
+\begin{methoddesc}{send}{data}
+Send data to the server.  This should be used directly only after the
+\method{endheaders()} method has been called and before
+\method{getresponse()} is called.
+\end{methoddesc}
 
 \subsection{HTTPResponse Objects \label{httpresponse-objects}}