[Bug 243299] fetch(1) fails to handle redirects on a valid URL

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            Bug ID: 243299
           Summary: fetch(1) fails to handle redirects on a valid URL
           Product: Base System
           Version: 12.1-STABLE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: misc
          Assignee: bugs at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: yuri at freebsd.org

> $ fetch "https://www.tddft.org/programs/libxc/down.php?file=4.3.4/libxc-4.3.4.tar.gz"
> fetch: https://www.tddft.org/programs/libxc/down.php?file=4.3.4/libxc-4.3.4.tar.gz: No address record


But wget succeeds:
> $ wget "https://www.tddft.org/programs/libxc/down.php?file=4.3.4/libxc-4.3.4.tar.gz"
> --2020-01-12 11:40:57--  https://www.tddft.org/programs/libxc/down.php?file=4.3.4/libxc-4.3.4.tar.gz
> Resolving www.tddft.org (www.tddft.org)... 193.137.208.200
> Connecting to www.tddft.org (www.tddft.org)|193.137.208.200|:443... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
> Location: down/4.3.4/libxc-4.3.4.tar.gz [following]
> --2020-01-12 11:40:59--  https://www.tddft.org/programs/libxc/down/4.3.4/libxc-4.3.4.tar.gz
> Reusing existing connection to www.tddft.org:443.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 15602575 (15M) [application/x-gzip]
> Saving to: ‘down.php?file=4.3.4%2Flibxc-4.3.4.tar.gz.4’
>
> down.php?file=4.3.4%2Flibxc-4.3.4.tar.gz.4    1%[>                                                                                        ] 279.68K   187KB/s               ^

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