diff -r f4f5b942e5e0 Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst	Thu Oct 30 10:17:59 2014 +0100
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst	Tue Nov 04 15:39:31 2014 -0500
@@ -84,8 +84,10 @@
      `Quick Reference to HTTP Headers <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/http.html>`_)
 
    * :meth:`~urllib.response.addinfourl.getcode` -- return the HTTP status code of the response.
-
-   Raises :exc:`~urllib.error.URLError` on errors.
+   
+   Raises :exc:`ValueError` if given an invalid url.
+   Raises :exc:`ValueError` if given CA certificates and cannot support SSL.
+   Raises :exc:`~urllib.error.URLError` on other errors.
 
    Note that ``None`` may be returned if no handler handles the request (though
    the default installed global :class:`OpenerDirector` uses