diff --git a/syntribos/clients/http/base_http_client.py b/syntribos/clients/http/base_http_client.py
index ce09fc9b..64cae70b 100644
--- a/syntribos/clients/http/base_http_client.py
+++ b/syntribos/clients/http/base_http_client.py
@@ -77,8 +77,7 @@ class HTTPClient(object):
         # the requests_lib kwargs dictionary, requestslib_kwargs "wins"
         requestslib_kwargs = dict(
             {'headers': headers, 'params': params, 'verify': verify,
-             'data': data}, **requestslib_kwargs)
+             'data': data, 'allow_redirects': False}, **requestslib_kwargs)
 
         # Make the request
-        return requests.request(method, url, allow_redirects=False,
-                                **requestslib_kwargs)
+        return requests.request(method, url, **requestslib_kwargs)
diff --git a/syntribos/utils/remotes.py b/syntribos/utils/remotes.py
index 9af9fdbd..81704360 100644
--- a/syntribos/utils/remotes.py
+++ b/syntribos/utils/remotes.py
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ def download(uri, cache_dir=None):
         temp_dirs.append(cache_dir)
     remote_dirs.append(cache_dir)
     LOG.debug("Remote file location: %s", remote_dirs)
-    resp, _ = SynHTTPClient().request("GET", uri)
+    _kwargs = {'allow_redirects': True}
+    resp, _ = SynHTTPClient().request("GET", uri, requestslib_kwargs=_kwargs)
     os.chdir(cache_dir)
     saved_umask = os.umask(0o77)
     fname = uri.split("/")[-1]