diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 08a254b3..cea5f7b5 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 2008-08-03  Micah Cowan  <micah@cowan.name>
 
 	* wget.texi: Don't set UPDATED; already set by version.texi.
+	(HTTP Options): Add --default-page option.
 
 2008-07-17  Steven Schubiger  <stsc@members.fsf.org>
 
diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index 17553da4..9cb5db99 100644
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -1075,6 +1075,12 @@ current directory).
 @section HTTP Options
 
 @table @samp
+@cindex default page name
+@cindex index.html
+@item --default-page=@var{name}
+Use @var{name} as the default file name when it isn't known (i.e., for
+URLs that end in a slash), instead of @file{index.html}.
+
 @cindex .html extension
 @item -E
 @itemx --html-extension
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 0f4ec366..3f587b20 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-08-03  Micah Cowan  <micah@cowan.name>
+
+	* main.c (print_help): Added --default-page.
+
 2008-08-01  Joao Ferreira  <joao@joaoff.com>
 
 	* init.c, main.c, options.h, url.c: Added option --default-page
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index 277dd0e9..a7c00b1c 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -514,6 +514,9 @@ HTTP options:\n"),
        --http-password=PASS    set http password to PASS.\n"),
     N_("\
        --no-cache              disallow server-cached data.\n"),
+    N_ ("\
+       --default-page=NAME     Change the default page name (normally\n\
+                               this is `index.html'.).\n"),
     N_("\
   -E,  --html-extension        save HTML documents with `.html' extension.\n"),
     N_("\