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doc: clarify http.request language #2415

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Expand Up @@ -463,10 +463,10 @@ automatically parsed with [url.parse()][].
Options:

- `protocol`: Protocol to use. Defaults to `'http'`.
- `host`: A domain name or IP address of the server to issue the request to.
Defaults to `'localhost'`.
- `hostname`: Alias for `host`. To support `url.parse()` `hostname` is
preferred over `host`.
- `host`: A domain name or IP address of the server to issue the request to,
optionally including a colon-prefixed port number. Defaults to `'localhost'`.
- `hostname`: A domain name or IP address. May not include colon-prefixed port
number. To support `url.parse()`, `hostname` is preferred over `host`.
- `family`: IP address family to use when resolving `host` and `hostname`.
Valid values are `4` or `6`. When unspecified, both IP v4 and v6 will be
used.
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