Commit d3c1df71 authored by Brad Fitzpatrick's avatar Brad Fitzpatrick

net/http: document streaming nature of Response.Body

Fixes #22873

Change-Id: Ib2b7ee42a23b84db21cdfa693b62d5e6fbfdb54e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/80075Reviewed-by: 's avatarTom Bergan <tombergan@google.com>
parent 13f45d09
......@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ var respExcludeHeader = map[string]bool{
// Response represents the response from an HTTP request.
//
// The Client and Transport return Responses from servers once
// the response headers have been received. The response body
// is streamed on demand as the Body field is read.
type Response struct {
Status string // e.g. "200 OK"
StatusCode int // e.g. 200
......@@ -47,6 +50,10 @@ type Response struct {
// Body represents the response body.
//
// The response body is streamed on demand as the Body field
// is read. If the network connection fails or the server
// terminates the response, Body.Read calls return an error.
//
// The http Client and Transport guarantee that Body is always
// non-nil, even on responses without a body or responses with
// a zero-length body. It is the caller's responsibility to
......
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