diff --git a/husky-communication/husky-valueset-gen/src/main/java/org/projecthusky/valueset/api/ValueSetManager.java b/husky-communication/husky-valueset-gen/src/main/java/org/projecthusky/valueset/api/ValueSetManager.java
index 552b25b2a8b..20a22f89bb3 100644
--- a/husky-communication/husky-valueset-gen/src/main/java/org/projecthusky/valueset/api/ValueSetManager.java
+++ b/husky-communication/husky-valueset-gen/src/main/java/org/projecthusky/valueset/api/ValueSetManager.java
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
 import org.projecthusky.valueset.model.ValueSet;
 import org.projecthusky.valueset.model.ValueSetEntry;
 import org.projecthusky.valueset.model.Version;
+import org.projecthusky.valueset.utils.VsUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
@@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ public ValueSet downloadValueSet(ValueSetConfig valueSetConfig)
 			var sourceUrlString = valueSetConfig.getSourceUrl();
 			var downloadedString = "";
 			try {
-				downloadedString = IOUtils.toString(new URL(sourceUrlString), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+				downloadedString = VsUtils.downloadAsString(new URL(sourceUrlString));
 				downloadedString = downloadedString.replace("&lt;", "<");
 				downloadedString = downloadedString.replace("&gt;", ">");
 				downloadedString = downloadedString.replace("&amp;", "&");
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@ public ValueSet downloadValueSet(ValueSetConfig valueSetConfig)
 	public byte[] downloadValueSetRaw(ValueSetConfig valueSetConfig) throws IOException {
 		byte[] retVal = null;
 		if (valueSetConfig != null && SourceSystemType.ARTDECOR_FHIR.equals(valueSetConfig.getSourceSystemType())) {
-			retVal = IOUtils.toByteArray(new URL(valueSetConfig.getSourceUrl()));
+			retVal = VsUtils.downloadAsByteArray(new URL(valueSetConfig.getSourceUrl()));
 		}
 		return retVal;
 	}
diff --git a/husky-communication/husky-valueset-gen/src/main/java/org/projecthusky/valueset/utils/VsUtils.java b/husky-communication/husky-valueset-gen/src/main/java/org/projecthusky/valueset/utils/VsUtils.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a8504e63f03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/husky-communication/husky-valueset-gen/src/main/java/org/projecthusky/valueset/utils/VsUtils.java
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/**
+ * 
+ */
+package org.projecthusky.valueset.utils;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.net.URLConnection;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+
+/**
+ * 
+ */
+public class VsUtils {
+
+	/**
+	 * Method to download as a string
+	 * 
+	 * @param url
+	 *            the url to download form
+	 * @return the string of the downloaded content
+	 * @throws IOException
+	 *             occures on errors during download
+	 */
+	public static String downloadAsString(URL url) throws IOException {
+		URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
+		connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2");
+		InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
+		String downloadedString = IOUtils.toString(is, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+		return downloadedString;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Method to download as a byte array
+	 * 
+	 * @param url
+	 *            the url to download form
+	 * @return the byte array of the downloaded content
+	 * @throws IOException
+	 *             occures on errors during download
+	 */
+	public static byte[] downloadAsByteArray(URL url) throws IOException {
+		URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
+		connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent",
+				"Mozilla/5.0 Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2");
+		InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
+		byte[] downloadedBytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(is, is.available());
+		return downloadedBytes;
+	}
+
+}