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diff --git a/lib/inets/doc/src/httpc.xml b/lib/inets/doc/src/httpc.xml
index fd63dc6dea..741f2abaef 100644
--- a/lib/inets/doc/src/httpc.xml
+++ b/lib/inets/doc/src/httpc.xml
@@ -43,8 +43,12 @@
cookies and other options that can be applied to more than one
request. </p>
- <p>If the scheme
- https is used the ssl application needs to be started.</p>
+ <p>If the scheme https is used the ssl application needs to be
+ started. When https links needs to go through a proxy the
+ CONNECT method extension to HTTP-1.1 is used to establish a
+ tunnel and then the connection is upgraded to TLS,
+ however "TLS upgrade" according to RFC 2817 is not
+ supported.</p>
<p>Also note that pipelining will only be used if the pipeline
timeout is set, otherwise persistent connections without