From adf475ef82cbd29f63814c0626f64926deb2355b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 08:31:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update HTTPAdapter docstring

---
 requests/adapters.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/requests/adapters.py b/requests/adapters.py
index 723b8179..c892853b 100644
--- a/requests/adapters.py
+++ b/requests/adapters.py
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ class HTTPAdapter(BaseAdapter):
         should attempt. Note, this applies only to failed DNS lookups, socket
         connections and connection timeouts, never to requests where data has
         made it to the server. By default, Requests does not retry failed
-        connections.
+        connections. If you need granular control over the conditions under
+        which we retry a request, import urllib3's ``Retry`` class and pass
+        that instead.
     :param pool_block: Whether the connection pool should block for connections.
 
     Usage::