diff -urN wget-1.7.org/src/host.c wget-1.7/src/host.c
--- wget-1.7.org/src/host.c	Wed Nov 14 13:30:45 2001
+++ wget-1.7/src/host.c	Wed Nov 14 13:31:12 2001
@@ -206,7 +206,6 @@
   memset(sa, 0, *len);
   *len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
   sa->sa_family = AF_INET;
-  sa->sa_len = *len;	/*XXX*/
 
   where = (char *)&((struct sockaddr_in *)sa)->sin_addr;