From 0c8cc99e5b596e5dfaf305daafc15946e93a6bb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 19:35:44 +0000
Subject: Provide a new `-b' flag to work around some broken HTTP/TCP
 implementations that can't deal with a half-closed connection.

---
 usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1 | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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

diff --git a/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1 b/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
index 924e8672072e..8fe3e0b561f0 100644
--- a/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
+++ b/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: fetch.1,v 1.16 1997/02/22 23:43:32 wosch Exp $
+.\" $Id: fetch.1,v 1.17 1997/03/05 18:57:15 fenner Exp $
 .Dd July 2, 1996
 .Dt FETCH 1
 .Os FreeBSD 2.2
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 .Nd retrieve a file by Uniform Resource Locator
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm fetch
-.Op Fl MPamnpqr
+.Op Fl MPabmnpqr
 .Op Fl o Ar file
 .Ar URL
 .Op Ar ...
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ The following options are available:
 .Bl -tag -width Fl
 .It Fl a
 Automatically retry the transfer upon soft failures.
+.It Fl b
+Work around a bug in some
+.Tn HTTP
+servers which fail to correctly implement the
+.Tn TCP
+protocol.
 .It Fl c Ar dir
 The file to retrieve is in directory
 .Ar dir
@@ -301,3 +307,7 @@ Only the
 authentication mode is implemented for
 .Tn HTTP .
 This should be replaced by digest authentication.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fl b
+flag should not be necessary.
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