Really? Despite the parameter, the example, and all the other information on the page, you really thought that? You need to read the pages in their totality... or at least skim them a little more thoroughly... 

You're also not supplying a HTTP request so that part of your change doesn't really make sense. 'the server' seems like a pretty clear reference to the parameter you're passing in. 

I say bogus.

Well, the response to my initial concern seems to advocate the onus being on the user to "read a page in its totality" over the manual containing concise documentation. "the server" may seem like a "pretty clear reference to the parameter you're passing in" to someone whose mind works one way and not another but we're all different so why not make it clearer? It can't hurt. I don't think I'm being pedantic. This is the first explanation of a PHP function in the manual that I've found particularly ambiguous. If the description of the function is clear it shouldn't be necessary to read further into the page. Really, my point should have been change "the server" to "a server". It does make a difference to interpretation. Over and out.