diff --git a/doc/api/http.markdown b/doc/api/http.markdown
index c0a8730ca9..b0499707c1 100644
--- a/doc/api/http.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/http.markdown
@@ -489,11 +489,19 @@ upload a file with a POST request, then write to the `ClientRequest` object.
 
 Example:
 
+    var postData = querystring.stringify({
+      'msg' : 'Hello World!'
+    });
+
     var options = {
       hostname: 'www.google.com',
       port: 80,
       path: '/upload',
-      method: 'POST'
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: {
+        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
+        'Content-Length': postData.length
+      }
     };
 
     var req = http.request(options, function(res) {
@@ -510,8 +518,7 @@ Example:
     });
 
     // write data to request body
-    req.write('data\n');
-    req.write('data\n');
+    req.write(postData);
     req.end();
 
 Note that in the example `req.end()` was called. With `http.request()` one