diff --git a/src/service/service.rs b/src/service/service.rs
index 1b9aea5162..44d945ebb0 100644
--- a/src/service/service.rs
+++ b/src/service/service.rs
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ pub trait Service<Request> {
     type Response;
 
     /// Errors produced by the service.
+    ///
+    /// Note: Returning an `Error` to a hyper server, the behavior depends on the
+    /// protocol. In most cases, hyper will cause the connection to be abruptly aborted.
+    /// It will abort the request however the protocol allows, either with some sort of RST_STREAM,
+    /// or killing the connection if that doesn't exist.
     type Error;
 
     /// The future response value.