diff --git a/src/net/http/request.go b/src/net/http/request.go
index e53dde16b4f720..31d62083cb0ee3 100644
--- a/src/net/http/request.go
+++ b/src/net/http/request.go
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ func (r *Request) Referer() string {
 
 // multipartByReader is a sentinel value.
 // Its presence in Request.MultipartForm indicates that parsing of the request
-// body has been handed off to a MultipartReader instead of ParseMultipartFrom.
+// body has been handed off to a MultipartReader instead of ParseMultipartForm.
 var multipartByReader = &multipart.Form{
 	Value: make(map[string][]string),
 	File:  make(map[string][]*multipart.FileHeader),