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  r83521 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-08-02 16:34:58 +0530 (Mon, 02 Aug 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix Issue8572  - httplib getheader() throws error instead of default
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diff --git a/Doc/library/http.client.rst b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
index 737ba15..3a44788 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.client.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.client.rst
@@ -449,7 +449,8 @@
 .. method:: HTTPResponse.getheader(name, default=None)
 
    Get the contents of the header *name*, or *default* if there is no matching
-   header.
+   header. If *default* is an iterator other than a string, then the return
+   value will be a string consisting of items of the iterator joined by comma.
 
 
 .. method:: HTTPResponse.getheaders()