From 9c3b9cf06267a1de1f9a650cdd4b5886f727ac82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:51:13 +0000
Subject: Deal with broken Web sites which return 302 responses rather than 404
 and an error document when the requested resource does not exist.  Grrr.

Requested by:	asami
---
 usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1 | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1')

diff --git a/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1 b/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
index bab5988..5be93f3 100644
--- a/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
+++ b/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-.\" $Id: fetch.1,v 1.27 1999/01/15 16:56:22 wollman Exp $
-.Dd January 15, 1999
+.\" $Id: fetch.1,v 1.28 1999/02/03 20:43:28 fenner Exp $
+.Dd February 22, 1999
 .Dt FETCH 1
-.Os FreeBSD 3.1
+.Os FreeBSD 4.0
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm fetch
 .Nd retrieve a file by Uniform Resource Locator
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm fetch
-.Op Fl MPablmnpqrtv
+.Op Fl AMPablmnpqrtv
 .Op Fl S Ar size
 .Op Fl T Ar timeout
 .Op Fl o Ar file
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ flags.
 .Pp
 The following options are available:
 .Bl -tag -width Fl
+.It Fl A
+Do not automatically follow ``temporary'' (302) redirects.  Some
+broken Web sites will return a redirect instead of a not-found error
+when the requested object does not exist.
 .It Fl a
 Automatically retry the transfer upon soft failures.
 .It Fl b
@@ -192,7 +196,7 @@ proxy client passes the remote username, host and port as the
 .Tn FTP
 session's username, in the form
 .Do Va remoteuser Ns Li \&@ Ns Va remotehost
-.Op Li \^@ Ns Va port
+.Op Li \&@ Ns Va port
 .Dc .
 The
 .Tn HTTP
@@ -254,7 +258,7 @@ or
 .Pp
 and
 .Nm
-will prompt for the missing information if it is required.  She might
+will prompt for any missing information when it is required.  She might
 also specify a realm of
 .Dq Li \&*
 instead of
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