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-rw-r--r--docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d2
-rw-r--r--src/tool_operate.c1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
index 35215dfd4..32d1c799b 100644
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/retry.d
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Help: Retry request if transient problems occur
If a transient error is returned when curl tries to perform a transfer, it
will retry this number of times before giving up. Setting the number to 0
makes curl do no retries (which is the default). Transient error means either:
-a timeout, an FTP 4xx response code or an HTTP 5xx response code.
+a timeout, an FTP 4xx response code or an HTTP 408 or 5xx response code.
When curl is about to retry a transfer, it will first wait one second and then
for all forthcoming retries it will double the waiting time until it reaches
diff --git a/src/tool_operate.c b/src/tool_operate.c
index 630a84d92..2c3f6dd4c 100644
--- a/src/tool_operate.c
+++ b/src/tool_operate.c
@@ -1631,6 +1631,7 @@ static CURLcode operate_do(struct GlobalConfig *global,
curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &response);
switch(response) {
+ case 408: /* Request Timeout */
case 500: /* Internal Server Error */
case 502: /* Bad Gateway */
case 503: /* Service Unavailable */