From: Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:05:15 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: #12787: link original MultiCall proposal to webarchive and in a footnote
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#12787: link original MultiCall proposal to webarchive and in a footnote
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diff --git a/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst b/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst
index 320e01982164..183be92a4895 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst
@@ -439,8 +439,8 @@ MultiCall Objects
 
 .. versionadded:: 2.4
 
-In http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader%241208, an approach is presented to
-encapsulate multiple calls to a remote server into a single request.
+The :class:`MultiCall` object provides a way to encapsulate multiple calls to a
+remote server into a single request [#]_.
 
 
 .. class:: MultiCall(server)
@@ -581,3 +581,10 @@ Example of Client and Server Usage
 See :ref:`simplexmlrpcserver-example`.
 
 
+.. rubric:: Footnotes
+
+.. [#] This approach has been first presented in `a discussion on xmlrpc.com
+   <http://web.archive.org/web/20060624230303/http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1208?mode=topic>`_.
+.. the link now points to webarchive since the one at
+.. http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader%241208 is broken (and webadmin
+.. doesn't reply)