diff --git a/.local/bin/rget b/.local/bin/rget
index 42d39c26..202096d1 100755
--- a/.local/bin/rget
+++ b/.local/bin/rget
@@ -62,10 +62,18 @@ rsync*)
 	fi
 esac
 
+get_wget () {
+	wget --reject 'index.html*' $OPT_SINGLE --continue --content-disposition --compression=gzip --no-proxy "$1" --directory-prefix="$OUTPUT"
+}
+
 mkdir -p "$OUTPUT"
 if $OPT_HTTP; then
-	wget --reject 'index.html*' $OPT_SINGLE --continue --content-disposition --compression=gzip --no-proxy "$ADDRESS" --directory-prefix="$OUTPUT"
+	get_wget "$ADDRESS"
 else
 	# We ignore timestamp by removing "-t" from "-a".  See man page.
 	rsync -ivzzP -rlpgoD --size-only $ADDRESS/files "$OUTPUT"
+	if [ $? = 5 ]; then
+		echo "Looks like HTTP, retrying with wget..."
+		get_wget $(echo "$ADDRESS" | sed s/^rsync/http/)
+	fi
 fi