1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/networking/wget.c b/networking/wget.c
index cfbaceced..d6c509edc 100644
--- a/networking/wget.c
+++ b/networking/wget.c
@@ -274,15 +274,22 @@ static void parse_url(const char *src_url, struct host_info *h)
         free(h->allocated);
         h->allocated = url = xstrdup(src_url);
 
-        if (strncmp(url, "http://", 7) == 0) {
-                h->port = bb_lookup_port("http", "tcp", 80);
-                h->host = url + 7;
-                h->is_ftp = 0;
-        } else if (strncmp(url, "ftp://", 6) == 0) {
+        if (strncmp(url, "ftp://", 6) == 0) {
                 h->port = bb_lookup_port("ftp", "tcp", 21);
                 h->host = url + 6;
                 h->is_ftp = 1;
         } else
+        if (strncmp(url, "http://", 7) == 0) {
+                h->host = url + 7;
+ http:
+                h->port = bb_lookup_port("http", "tcp", 80);
+                h->is_ftp = 0;
+        } else
+        if (!strstr(url, "//")) {
+                // GNU wget is user-friendly and falls back to http://
+                h->host = url;
+                goto http;
+        } else
                 bb_error_msg_and_die("not an http or ftp url: %s", sanitize_string(url));
 
         // FYI: