doc: improve http.abort description

Per #4409, the documentation on http.abort is a bit lacking. This provides a slight improvement. Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> PR-URL: #25591
nodejs · Aug 4, 2015 · 85bcb28 · 85bcb28
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@@ -897,7 +897,8 @@ is finished.
 
 ### request.abort()
 
-Aborts a request.  (New since v0.3.8.)
+Marks the request as aborting. Calling this will cause remaining data
+in the response to be dropped and the socket to be destroyed.
 
 ### request.setTimeout(timeout[, callback])