--- smart-0.50/smart/fetcher.py.orig	2007-06-21 15:09:38.000000000 +0200
+++ smart-0.50/smart/fetcher.py	2007-06-21 15:09:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -1638,6 +1638,7 @@
                         handle.setopt(pycurl.WRITEDATA, local)
                         handle.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, 1)
                         handle.setopt(pycurl.MAXREDIRS, 5)
+                        handle.setopt(pycurl.FAILONERROR, 1)
 
                         # check if we have a valid local file and use I-M-S
                         if fetcher.validate(item, localpath):