diff --git a/app/controllers/templates_uploads_controller.rb b/app/controllers/templates_uploads_controller.rb
index 7a41c1c2..8823eeac 100644
--- a/app/controllers/templates_uploads_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/templates_uploads_controller.rb
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class TemplatesUploadsController < ApplicationController
   def create_file_params_from_url
     tempfile = Tempfile.new
     tempfile.binmode
-    tempfile.write(conn.get(params[:url]).body)
+    tempfile.write(conn.get(Addressable::URI.parse(params[:url]).display_uri.to_s).body)
     tempfile.rewind
 
     file = ActionDispatch::Http::UploadedFile.new(
diff --git a/lib/submitters/normalize_values.rb b/lib/submitters/normalize_values.rb
index 62c541e9..f7025037 100644
--- a/lib/submitters/normalize_values.rb
+++ b/lib/submitters/normalize_values.rb
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ module Submitters
 
       return blob if blob
 
-      data = conn.get(url).body
+      data = conn.get(Addressable::URI.parse(url).display_uri.to_s).body
 
       checksum = Digest::MD5.base64digest(data)