diff --git a/libavformat/http.c b/libavformat/http.c
index cc7dc08f5a..ae03e0ff58 100644
--- a/libavformat/http.c
+++ b/libavformat/http.c
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ static int http_write(URLContext *h, const uint8_t *buf, int size)
         return AVERROR(EIO);
 
     if (s->chunksize == -1) {
-        /* headers are sent without any special encoding */
+        /* non-chunked data is sent without any special encoding */
         return url_write(s->hd, buf, size);
     }