diff --git a/scripts/run-firehose.sh b/scripts/run-firehose.sh
index bae6b18..7759ecf 100644
--- a/scripts/run-firehose.sh
+++ b/scripts/run-firehose.sh
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ while true
     ## This assumes that we have other scripts that are writing to the file called
     ## $source, which here is today's date appended with .uris.txt
     today=`date +"%Y%m%d"`
-    source="/data/$today.uris.txt" 
+    source="/data/$today.uris.txt"
 
-    ## Here we take the top 500 lines of the file -- so we are in FIFO 
+    ## Here we take the top 500 lines of the file -- so we are in FIFO
     ## and pipe them thru uniq so we only pass unique URIs through to the fake relay
     ##  This step easily cuts the total number of URIs in half and is the only way we can keep up
 
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ while true
     ## Start looping through the unique URIs
     cat backfilluris.txt| \
     while read -r uri
-        do 
+        do
         echo "[INFO] RUN-FIREHOSE: Posting $uri"
 
             ## Send it to the fake relay as a background job
-            curl -X "POST" "$fakeRelayHost" \
+            curl -L -X "POST" "$fakeRelayHost" \
                 -H "Authorization: Bearer $fakeRelayKey" \
                 -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8' \
                 --data-urlencode "statusUrl=$uri" \
@@ -35,20 +35,20 @@ while true
             do
                 curls=`ps -ef|grep curl|wc -l`
                 echo "[INFO] RUN-FIREHOSE: Waiting for existing curls to finish, at $curls"
-                linesLeft=`cat "$source"|wc -l` 
+                linesLeft=`cat "$source"|wc -l`
                 echo "[INFO] RUN-FIREHOSE:$linesLeft Total URIs left"
                 sleep 5s
             done
 
         done
 
-        linesLeft=`cat "$source"|wc -l` 
+        linesLeft=`cat "$source"|wc -l`
 
         ## Wait until the queue is at least 500 lines long, less than that
         ## and there are not enough lines to see if there are duplicates.
         until [ $linesLeft -gt $minURIs ]
         do
-            linesLeft=`cat "$source"|wc -l` 
+            linesLeft=`cat "$source"|wc -l`
             echo "[INFO] RUN-FIREHOSE: Waiting for more URIs to batch, currently at $linesLeft"
             sleep 5s
         done
diff --git a/scripts/stream-url.sh b/scripts/stream-url.sh
index 12fe385..d6adee9 100644
--- a/scripts/stream-url.sh
+++ b/scripts/stream-url.sh
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ do
     then
     #Not in archive mode
 
-        curl -X "GET" "$url" \
+        curl -L -X "GET" "$url" \
             --no-progress-meter | \
             tee -a "/data/$today.json" | \
             grep url | \
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ do
             mkdir -p "/data/$today/"
         fi
 
-        curl -X "GET" "$url" --no-progress-meter >> "/data/$today/$today.$host.json"
+        curl -L -X "GET" "$url" --no-progress-meter >> "/data/$today/$today.$host.json"
     fi
 
     # Basic exponential backoff
@@ -79,4 +79,4 @@ do
 done
 
 ## Exit 0 by default
-exit 0
\ No newline at end of file
+exit 0