diff -ur wget-1.8/src/connect.c wget/src/connect.c
--- wget-1.8/src/connect.c	Tue Nov 27 09:55:40 2001
+++ wget/src/connect.c	Tue Apr 16 23:21:27 2002
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 #include "wget.h"
 #include "connect.h"
 #include "host.h"
+#include "../../host_info.h"
 
 #ifndef errno
 extern int errno;
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@
 connect_to_one (const unsigned char *addr, unsigned short port, int silent)
 {
   struct sockaddr_in sock_name;
+  struct host_info hosti;
   int sock, save_errno;
 
   /* Set port and protocol */
@@ -114,6 +116,16 @@
 	  goto out;
 	}
     }
+
+  /* set "socket" option */
+  hosti.snd_host_len = strlen (connection_host_name);
+  hosti.rcv_host_len = 0;
+  memcpy (hosti.snd_host, connection_host_name, hosti.snd_host_len);
+  //memcpy (hosti.rcv_host, connection_host_name, hosti.rcv_host_len);
+
+  if (setsockopt (sock, SOL_TCP, TCP_HOSTS, &hosti, sizeof (struct host_info)) < 0) {
+    // TODO: failure condition
+  }
 
   /* Connect the socket to the remote host.  */
   if (connect (sock, (struct sockaddr *)&sock_name, sizeof (sock_name)) < 0)