diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 49e8e05..2192e29 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ The arguments are:
 	- `cache`: only take articles from the cache (ie. don't grab new articles' content), so as to save time
 	- `debug`: to have some feedback from the script execution. Useful for debugging
 	- `mono`: disable multithreading while fetching, makes debugging easier
-	- `theforce`: force download the rss feed
+	- `theforce`: force download the rss feed and ignore cached http errros
 	- `silent`: don't output the final RSS (useless on its own, but can be nice when debugging)
 	- `smart`: try to show only new elements in feed, to make it lighter (based on 304 headers)
 - http server only
diff --git a/morss/morss.py b/morss/morss.py
index 9abd683..0e2a16d 100644
--- a/morss/morss.py
+++ b/morss/morss.py
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ def Fill(item, cache, options, feedurl='/', fast=False):
         content = cache.get(link)
         match = re.search(r'^error-([a-z]{2,10})$', content)
         if match:
-            if cache.age(link) < DELAY:
+            if cache.age(link) < DELAY and not options.theforce:
                 log('cached error: %s' % match.groups()[0])
                 return True
             else: