diff --git a/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/README b/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/README
index c21ce1acab..0a3fa0dc27 100644
--- a/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/README
+++ b/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/README
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ for a given amount of time, the transfer will be aborted. The duration can be
 set by setting the 'progress_timeout' attribute in the '<config>' node. It is
 specified in milliseconds and the default value is 10 seconds.
 
+The 'ignore_failures' attribute instructs the component to always report
+success (via exit-code 0). It is useful when batching is used where a
+failed fetch operation should not influence the over-all result. The default
+value is 'false'.
+
+
 The following config snippets illustrate its usage.
 
 Load the socket plugin in to the fetchurl binary (print output to log):
diff --git a/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/component.cc b/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/component.cc
index c6567aab91..5236096ad1 100644
--- a/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/component.cc
+++ b/repos/libports/src/app/fetchurl/component.cc
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ struct Fetchurl::Main
 
 	Genode::Milliseconds _progress_timeout { 10u * 1000 };
 
+	bool _ignore_result { false };
+
 	void _schedule_report()
 	{
 		using namespace Genode;
@@ -189,6 +191,9 @@ struct Fetchurl::Main
 		};
 
 		config_node.for_each_sub_node("fetch", parse_fn);
+
+		_ignore_result = config_node.attribute_value("ignore_failures",
+		                                             _ignore_result);
 	}
 
 	Main(Libc::Env &e) : _env(e)
@@ -332,7 +337,8 @@ struct Fetchurl::Main
 
 		curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
 
-		return exit_res ^ CURLE_OK;
+		int const result = exit_res ^ CURLE_OK;
+		return _ignore_result ? 0 : result;
 	}
 };