diff --git a/server/core/test/test_utils.cc b/server/core/test/test_utils.cc
index e0de656ad..a4c22d808 100644
--- a/server/core/test/test_utils.cc
+++ b/server/core/test/test_utils.cc
@@ -170,10 +170,25 @@ int test_checksums()
     return 0;
 }
 
+void test_http()
+{
+    auto res = mxs::http::get("https://mariadb.com/");
+    std::cout << "https://mariadb.com/ responded with: " << res.code << std::endl;
+    if (res.code == 200)
+    {
+        if (res.headers.count("Date"))
+        {
+            std::cout << "The date is: " << res.headers["Date"] << std::endl;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 {
     int rv = 0;
 
+    test_http(); // Just to see that it works
+
     rv += test_trim();
     rv += test_trim_leading();
     rv += test_trim_trailing();
diff --git a/server/core/utils.cc b/server/core/utils.cc
index 4d77fa8f7..c5ab185ae 100644
--- a/server/core/utils.cc
+++ b/server/core/utils.cc
@@ -1248,6 +1248,9 @@ Result get(const std::string& url)
     char errbuf[CURL_ERROR_SIZE + 1] = "";
     CURL* curl = curl_easy_init();
 
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10); // For connection phase
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); // For data transfer phase
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, errbuf);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_callback);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &res.raw_body);