http_client.c: fix comment and documentation of the memory BIOs used

Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Hugo Landau <hlandau@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/18674)

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod b/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod
index e44ee9761e..3df2f07d3d 100644
--- a/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod
+++ b/doc/man3/OSSL_HTTP_transfer.pod
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ an ASN.1-encoded response is expected, which should include a total length,
 the length indications received are checked for consistency
 and for not exceeding any given maximum response length.
 If an ASN.1-encoded response is expected, the function returns on success
-the contents as a memory BIO, which does not support streaming.
+the contents buffered in a memory BIO, which does not support streaming.
 Otherwise it returns directly the read BIO that holds the response contents,
 which allows a response of indefinite length and may support streaming.
 The caller is responsible for freeing the BIO pointer obtained.
@@ -257,8 +257,8 @@ OSSL_HTTP_proxy_connect() and OSSL_HTTP_set1_request()
 return 1 on success, 0 on error.
 
 On success, OSSL_HTTP_exchange(), OSSL_HTTP_get(), and OSSL_HTTP_transfer()
-return a memory BIO containing the data received if an ASN.1-encoded response
-is expected, else a BIO that may support streaming.
+return a memory BIO that buffers all the data received if an ASN.1-encoded
+response is expected, otherwise a BIO that may support streaming.
 The BIO must be freed by the caller.
 On failure, they return NULL.
 Failure conditions include connection/transfer timeout, parse errors, etc.