[svn] Document --retry-connrefused.

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@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-04-25  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@xemacs.org>
+
+       * wget.texi (Download Options): Document --retry-connrefused.
+
 2005-04-25  Hrvoje Niksic  <hniksic@xemacs.org>
 
        * Makefile.in (wget.info): Depend on version.texi as well.

diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
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@@ -919,6 +919,14 @@ addresses are accessed.  Also note that the reordering performed by
 this option is @dfn{stable}---it doesn't affect order of addresses of
 the same family.  That is, the relative order of all IPv4 addresses
 and of all IPv6 addresses remains intact in all cases.
+
+@item --retry-connrefused
+Consider ``connection refused'' a transient error and try again.
+Normally Wget gives up on a URL when it is unable to connect to the
+site because failure to connect is taken as a sign that the server is
+not running at all and that retries would not help.  This option is
+for mirroring unreliable sites whose servers tend to disappear for
+short periods of time.
 @end table
 
 @node Directory Options
@@ -2617,6 +2625,10 @@ Restrict the file names generated by Wget from URLs.  See
 When set to on, retrieve symbolic links as if they were plain files; the
 same as @samp{--retr-symlinks}.
 
+@item retry_connrefused = on/off
+When set to on, consider ``connection refused'' a transient
+error---the same as @samp{--retry-connrefused}.
+
 @item robots = on/off
 Specify whether the norobots convention is respected by Wget, ``on'' by
 default.  This switch controls both the @file{/robots.txt} and the