diff --git a/src/net/http/request.go b/src/net/http/request.go
index 16c5bb43ac4..03f3e2b9747 100644
--- a/src/net/http/request.go
+++ b/src/net/http/request.go
@@ -99,30 +99,37 @@ type Request struct {
 	ProtoMajor int    // 1
 	ProtoMinor int    // 0
 
-	// A header maps request lines to their values.
-	// If the header says
+	// Header contains the request header fields either received
+	// by the server or to be sent by the client.
 	//
+	// If a server received a request with header lines,
+	//
+	//	Host: example.com
 	//	accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
 	//	Accept-Language: en-us
-	//	Connection: keep-alive
+	//	fOO: Bar
+	//	foo: two
 	//
 	// then
 	//
 	//	Header = map[string][]string{
 	//		"Accept-Encoding": {"gzip, deflate"},
 	//		"Accept-Language": {"en-us"},
-	//		"Connection": {"keep-alive"},
+	//		"Foo": {"Bar", "two"},
 	//	}
 	//
-	// HTTP defines that header names are case-insensitive.
-	// The request parser implements this by canonicalizing the
-	// name, making the first character and any characters
-	// following a hyphen uppercase and the rest lowercase.
+	// For incoming requests, the Host header is promoted to the
+	// Request.Host field and removed from the Header map.
 	//
-	// For client requests certain headers are automatically
-	// added and may override values in Header.
+	// HTTP defines that header names are case-insensitive. The
+	// request parser implements this by using CanonicalHeaderKey,
+	// making the first character and any characters following a
+	// hyphen uppercase and the rest lowercase.
 	//
-	// See the documentation for the Request.Write method.
+	// For client requests, certain headers such as Content-Length
+	// and Connection are automatically written when needed and
+	// values in Header may be ignored. See the documentation
+	// for the Request.Write method.
 	Header Header
 
 	// Body is the request's body.
@@ -152,8 +159,15 @@ type Request struct {
 	TransferEncoding []string
 
 	// Close indicates whether to close the connection after
-	// replying to this request (for servers) or after sending
-	// the request (for clients).
+	// replying to this request (for servers) or after sending this
+	// request and reading its response (for clients).
+	//
+	// For server requests, the HTTP server handles this automatically
+	// and this field is not needed by Handlers.
+	//
+	// The client requests, setting this field prevents re-use of
+	// TCP connections between requests to the same hosts, as if
+	// Transport.DisableKeepAlives were set.
 	Close bool
 
 	// For server requests Host specifies the host on which the