diff --git a/doc/api/http.md b/doc/api/http.md
index 94f2ec75529278..eab2e2721bd60b 100644
--- a/doc/api/http.md
+++ b/doc/api/http.md
@@ -1476,8 +1476,8 @@ added: v0.3.6
 Since most requests are GET requests without bodies, Node.js provides this
 convenience method. The only difference between this method and
 [`http.request()`][] is that it sets the method to GET and calls `req.end()`
-automatically. Note that response data must be consumed in the callback
-for reasons stated in [`http.ClientRequest`][] section.
+automatically. Note that the callback must take care to consume the response
+data for reasons stated in [`http.ClientRequest`][] section.
 
 The `callback` is invoked with a single argument that is an instance of
 [`http.IncomingMessage`][]