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Clarify http.get data consumption requirement #15049

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions doc/api/http.md
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Since most requests are GET requests without bodies, Node.js provides this
convenience method. The only difference between this method and
[`http.request()`][] is that it sets the method to GET and calls `req.end()`
automatically. Note that response data must be consumed in the callback
for reasons stated in [`http.ClientRequest`][] section.
automatically. Note that the callback must take care to consume the response
data for reasons stated in [`http.ClientRequest`][] section.

The `callback` is invoked with a single argument that is an instance of
[`http.IncomingMessage`][]
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