diff --git a/docs/api/request.md b/docs/api/request.md
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--- a/docs/api/request.md
+++ b/docs/api/request.md
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 
 ### request.header
 
- Request header object.
+ Request header object.  This is the same as the [`headers`](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_message_headers) field
+ on node's [`http.IncomingMessage`](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_class_http_incomingmessage).
 
 ### request.header=