diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 0cabd0047..c6ba03b64 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ Pass a FILE * as parameter. Tell libcurl to use this stream instead of stderr
 when showing the progress meter and displaying \fICURLOPT_VERBOSE\fP data.
 .IP CURLOPT_FAILONERROR
 A non-zero parameter tells the library to fail silently if the HTTP code
-returned is equal to or larger than 300. The default action would be to return
+returned is equal to or larger than 400. The default action would be to return
 the page normally, ignoring that code.
 .SH NETWORK OPTIONS
 .IP CURLOPT_URL