diff --git a/src/utils/https_client.cc b/src/utils/https_client.cc
index f413e8ca0..00025e3cb 100644
--- a/src/utils/https_client.cc
+++ b/src/utils/https_client.cc
@@ -110,15 +110,18 @@ bool HttpsClient::download(const std::string &uri) {
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, this);
 
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "ModSecurity3");
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers_chunk);
 
     /* We want Curl to return error in case there is an HTTP error code */
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
 
     if (m_requestBody.empty() == false) {
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, m_requestBody.c_str());
+        headers_chunk = curl_slist_append(headers_chunk, "Expect:"); // Disable Expect: 100-continue
     }
 
+    /* set HTTP headers for request */
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers_chunk);
+
     res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
 
     curl_slist_free_all(headers_chunk);