diff --git a/httpie/cli.py b/httpie/cli.py index 87035120..43b00477 100644 --- a/httpie/cli.py +++ b/httpie/cli.py @@ -529,12 +529,12 @@ network.add_argument( default=0, metavar='SECONDS', help=""" - The connection timeout of the request in seconds. + The connection timeout of the request in seconds. The default value is 0, i.e., there is no timeout limit. This is not a time limit on the entire response download; - rather, an error is reported if the server has not issued a response for + rather, an error is reported if the server has not issued a response for timeout seconds (more precisely, if no bytes have been received on - the underlying socket for timeout seconds). + the underlying socket for timeout seconds). """ )