Clarify the docs for the 'strict' argument to httplib.HTTPConnection.
diff --git a/Doc/library/httplib.rst b/Doc/library/httplib.rst
index 4c87d17..874fd54 100644
--- a/Doc/library/httplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/httplib.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
server. It should be instantiated passing it a host and optional port
number. If no port number is passed, the port is extracted from the host
string if it has the form ``host:port``, else the default HTTP port (80) is
- used. When True, the optional parameter *strict* causes ``BadStatusLine`` to
+ used. When True, the optional parameter *strict* (which defaults to a false
+ value) causes ``BadStatusLine`` to
be raised if the status line can't be parsed as a valid HTTP/1.0 or 1.1
status line. If the optional *timeout* parameter is given, blocking
operations (like connection attempts) will timeout after that many seconds