(tomcat) 01/03: Fix copy/paste of comment from POST to PATCH

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commit ef0b4b18846d3ee4c9f6a9b4d8819c28645795c2
Author: Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Fri May 3 08:30:03 2024 +0100

    Fix copy/paste of comment from POST to PATCH
---
 java/jakarta/servlet/http/HttpServlet.java | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/java/jakarta/servlet/http/HttpServlet.java b/java/jakarta/servlet/http/HttpServlet.java
index 0bcdbcbbf7..354d51fd97 100644
--- a/java/jakarta/servlet/http/HttpServlet.java
+++ b/java/jakarta/servlet/http/HttpServlet.java
@@ -242,10 +242,10 @@ public abstract class HttpServlet extends GenericServlet {
      * When using HTTP 1.1 chunked encoding (which means that the response has a Transfer-Encoding header), do not set
      * the Content-Length header.
      * <p>
-     * This method does not need to be either safe or idempotent. Operations requested through POST can have side
-     * effects for which the user can be held accountable, for example, updating stored data or buying items online.
+     * This method is neither safe nor idempotent. Operations requested through PATCH have side effects for which the
+     * user can be held accountable.
      * <p>
-     * If the HTTP POST request is incorrectly formatted, <code>doPost</code> returns an HTTP "Bad Request" message.
+     * If the HTTP PATCH request is incorrectly formatted, <code>doPost</code> returns an HTTP "Bad Request" message.
      *
      * @param req  an {@link HttpServletRequest} object that contains the request the client has made of the servlet
      * @param resp an {@link HttpServletResponse} object that contains the response the servlet sends to the client


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