diff --git a/Doc/library/http.server.rst b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
index ae7fb970de1ec4..6e71c8a881118a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.server.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ of which this module provides three different variants:
 
       Contains the output stream for writing a response back to the
       client. Proper adherence to the HTTP protocol must be used when writing to
-      this stream.
+      this stream in order to achieve successful interoperation with HTTP
+      clients.
 
    :class:`BaseHTTPRequestHandler` has the following attributes: