diff --git a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
index 078e08453..38d19fb00 100644
--- a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ Don't cache responses with these URI schemes.
 HTTPCACHE_STORAGE
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Default: ``'scrapy.contrib.httpcache.DbmCacheStorage'``
+Default: ``'scrapy.contrib.httpcache.FilesystemCacheStorage'``
 
 The class which implements the cache storage backend.