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diff --git a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblRestClient.java b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblRestClient.java
index 92972eb..f36e111 100644
--- a/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblRestClient.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ext/ensembl/EnsemblRestClient.java
@@ -259,7 +259,8 @@ abstract class EnsemblRestClient extends EnsemblSequenceFetcher
   }
 
   /**
-   * Sends the HTTP request and gets the response as a reader
+   * Sends the HTTP request and gets the response as a reader. Returns null if
+   * the HTTP response code was not 200.
    * 
    * @param url
    * @param ids
@@ -268,7 +269,6 @@ abstract class EnsemblRestClient extends EnsemblSequenceFetcher
    *          in milliseconds
    * @return
    * @throws IOException
-   *           if response code was not 200, or other I/O error
    */
   protected BufferedReader getHttpResponse(URL url, List<String> ids,
           int readTimeout) throws IOException