diff --git a/docs/reference/modules/http.asciidoc b/docs/reference/modules/http.asciidoc
index ef75bf100d2..cf3780e53fd 100644
--- a/docs/reference/modules/http.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/modules/http.asciidoc
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding[HTTP chunking].
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 === Settings
 
-The following are the settings that can be configured for HTTP:
+The settings in the table below can be configured for HTTP. Note that none of
+them are dynamically updatable so for them to take effect they should be set in
+`elasticsearch.yml`.
 
 [cols="<,<",options="header",]
 |=======================================================================
@@ -91,8 +93,6 @@ simple message will be returned. Defaults to `true`
 It also uses the common
 <<modules-network,network settings>>.
 
-Note that none of these settings is dynamically updatable.
-
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 === Disable HTTP