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@@ -355,9 +355,9 @@ If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "-f/--fail"
(HTTP) Fail silently (no output at all) on server errors. This is mostly done
like this to better enable scripts etc to better deal with failed attempts. In
-normal cases when a HTTP server fails to deliver a document, it returns a HTML
-document stating so (which often also describes why and more). This flag will
-prevent curl from outputting that and fail silently instead.
+normal cases when a HTTP server fails to deliver a document, it returns an
+HTML document stating so (which often also describes why and more). This flag
+will prevent curl from outputting that and return error 22.
If this option is used twice, the second will again disable silent failure.
.IP "--ftp-account [data]"