diff --git a/selfdrive/ui/qt/setup/setup.cc b/selfdrive/ui/qt/setup/setup.cc
index 1b09ad4461..0a684c0765 100644
--- a/selfdrive/ui/qt/setup/setup.cc
+++ b/selfdrive/ui/qt/setup/setup.cc
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ void Setup::download(QString url) {
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, NULL);
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, fp);
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, USER_AGENT);
   curl_easy_perform(curl);
   curl_easy_cleanup(curl);