doc: update description of 'clientError' event

Default behavior is to send a '400 Bad Request' response if the socket is writable. PR-URL: #18885 Refs: #15324 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <[email protected]>
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 If a client connection emits an `'error'` event, it will be forwarded here.
 Listener of this event is responsible for closing/destroying the underlying
-socket. For example, one may wish to more gracefully close the socket with an
-HTTP '400 Bad Request' response instead of abruptly severing the connection.
+socket. For example, one may wish to more gracefully close the socket with a
+custom HTTP response instead of abruptly severing the connection.
 
-Default behavior is to destroy the socket immediately on malformed request.
+Default behavior is to close the socket with an HTTP '400 Bad Request' response
+if possible, otherwise the socket is immediately destroyed.
 
 `socket` is the [`net.Socket`][] object that the error originated from.