diff --git a/src/mavsdk/core/curl_wrapper.cpp b/src/mavsdk/core/curl_wrapper.cpp
index 30ef52aa9..827e21903 100644
--- a/src/mavsdk/core/curl_wrapper.cpp
+++ b/src/mavsdk/core/curl_wrapper.cpp
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ bool CurlWrapper::download_text(const std::string& url, std::string& content)
         curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
         curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_callback);
         curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &readBuffer);
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1L);
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
         res = curl_easy_perform(curl.get());
         content = readBuffer;
 
@@ -108,6 +110,8 @@ bool CurlWrapper::download_file_to_path(
         curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, NULL);
         curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, fp);
         curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 0L);
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1L);
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl.get(), CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
         res = curl_easy_perform(curl.get());
         fclose(fp);
 
diff --git a/third_party/curl/CMakeLists.txt b/third_party/curl/CMakeLists.txt
index b5c83a149..7935b3e36 100644
--- a/third_party/curl/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/third_party/curl/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,14 +13,17 @@ list(APPEND CMAKE_ARGS
     "-DCURL_USE_LIBSSH2=OFF"
     "-DBUILD_CURL_EXE=OFF"
     "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF"
-    "-DCURL_CA_PATH_SET=OFF"
     "-DCURL_ZLIB=OFF"
     "-DHTTP_ONLY=ON"
     "-DHAVE_POSIX_STRERROR_R=1"
     "-DBUILD_TESTING=OFF"
     )
 
-if(IOS)
+if(ANDROID)
+    list(APPEND CMAKE_ARGS
+        "-DCURL_CA_PATH=/system/etc/security/cacerts"
+    )
+elseif(IOS)
     list(APPEND CMAKE_ARGS
         "-DPLATFORM=${PLATFORM}"
         "-DDEPLOYMENT_TARGET=${DEPLOYMENT_TARGET}"