diff --git a/src/downloadThread.cpp b/src/downloadThread.cpp
index 738bfcc83..09dbc3c71 100644
--- a/src/downloadThread.cpp
+++ b/src/downloadThread.cpp
@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ void subDownloadThread::run(){
     // We have to define CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION or it will crash on windows
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, fwrite);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, f);
+    // Verbose
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
+    // No progress info (we don't use it)
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 1);
+    // Redirections
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, -1);
     qDebug("Downloading %s", url.toUtf8().data());
     res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
     /* always cleanup */