diff --git a/doc/api/http.md b/doc/api/http.md
index 1ae77464087e2c..43b368583dc626 100644
--- a/doc/api/http.md
+++ b/doc/api/http.md
@@ -1983,8 +1983,7 @@ added: v0.1.90
 **Only valid for request obtained from [`http.Server`][].**
 
 Request URL string. This contains only the URL that is present in the actual
-HTTP request. If the request is (remember, each header line ends with `\r\n`
-plus a final `\r\n` after the last one indicating the end of the header):
+HTTP request. Take the following request:
 
 ```http
 GET /status?name=ryan HTTP/1.1
diff --git a/doc/api/http2.md b/doc/api/http2.md
index 3c4c7b85a79f54..3ff984a3e25e6a 100644
--- a/doc/api/http2.md
+++ b/doc/api/http2.md
@@ -2988,8 +2988,7 @@ added: v8.4.0
 * {string}
 
 Request URL string. This contains only the URL that is present in the actual
-HTTP request. If the request is (remember, each header line ends with `\r\n`
-plus a final `\r\n` after the last one indicating the end of the header):
+HTTP request. If the request is:
 
 ```http
 GET /status?name=ryan HTTP/1.1
@@ -3003,7 +3002,7 @@ Then `request.url` will be:
 '/status?name=ryan'
 ```
 
-To parse the url into its parts `require('url').parse(request.url)`
+To parse the url into its parts, `require('url').parse(request.url)`
 can be used:
 
 ```console