diff --git a/application/libraries/Curl.php b/application/libraries/Curl.php
index 35a755242..9ff8dfd5d 100644
--- a/application/libraries/Curl.php
+++ b/application/libraries/Curl.php
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ class Curl {
 		// Add the filepath
 		$url .= $file_path;
 
-		$this->option(CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, TRUE);
 		$this->option(CURLOPT_VERBOSE, TRUE);
 
 		return $this->execute();
diff --git a/application/models/Update_model.php b/application/models/Update_model.php
index 758999b77..be088d5e4 100644
--- a/application/models/Update_model.php
+++ b/application/models/Update_model.php
@@ -433,7 +433,6 @@ class Update_model extends CI_Model {
 		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
 		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
-		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,true);
 		curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
 
 		$response = curl_exec($curl);