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diff --git a/src/net/http/server.go b/src/net/http/server.go
index 203037e9f..8f2b777b2 100644
--- a/src/net/http/server.go
+++ b/src/net/http/server.go
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ var (
// and then return. Returning signals that the request is finished
// and that the HTTP server can move on to the next request on
// the connection.
+//
+// If ServeHTTP panics, the server (the caller of ServeHTTP) assumes
+// that the effect of the panic was isolated to the active request.
+// It recovers the panic, logs a stack trace to the server error log,
+// and hangs up the connection.
+//
type Handler interface {
ServeHTTP(ResponseWriter, *Request)
}