diff --git a/loader/src/loader/updater.cpp b/loader/src/loader/updater.cpp
index 3e89713f..b5d078c2 100644
--- a/loader/src/loader/updater.cpp
+++ b/loader/src/loader/updater.cpp
@@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ void updater::downloadLoaderUpdate(std::string const& url) {
             LoaderUpdateEvent(UpdateFinished()).post();
         })
         .expect([](std::string const& info) {
+            log::error("Failed to download latest update {}", info);
             LoaderUpdateEvent(
                 UpdateFailed("Unable to download update: " + info)
             ).post();
@@ -334,6 +335,7 @@ void updater::checkForLoaderUpdates() {
             ).post();
         },
         [](std::string const& info) {
+            log::error("Failed to fetch updates {}", info);
             LoaderUpdateEvent(
                 UpdateFailed("Unable to check for updates: " + info)
             ).post();
diff --git a/loader/src/utils/web.cpp b/loader/src/utils/web.cpp
index cfa49ae5..b708a19e 100644
--- a/loader/src/utils/web.cpp
+++ b/loader/src/utils/web.cpp
@@ -336,21 +336,19 @@ SentAsyncWebRequest::Impl::Impl(SentAsyncWebRequest* self, AsyncWebRequest const
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADERDATA, &data);
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, +[](char* buffer, size_t size, size_t nitems, void* ptr){
             auto data = static_cast<ProgressData*>(ptr);
-            std::string header;
-            header.append(buffer, size * nitems); 
-            // send the header to the response header callback
-            Loader::get()->queueInMainThread([self = data->self, header]() {
-                std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> headers;
-                std::string line;
-                std::stringstream ss(header);
-                while (std::getline(ss, line)) {
-                    auto colon = line.find(':');
-                    if (colon == std::string::npos) continue;
-                    auto key = line.substr(0, colon);
-                    auto value = line.substr(colon + 2);
-                    self->m_responseHeader[key] = value;
+            std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> headers;
+            std::string line;
+            std::stringstream ss(std::string(buffer, size * nitems));
+            while (std::getline(ss, line)) {
+                auto colon = line.find(':');
+                if (colon == std::string::npos) continue;
+                auto key = line.substr(0, colon);
+                auto value = line.substr(colon + 2);
+                if (value.ends_with('\r')) {
+                    value = value.substr(0, value.size() - 1);
                 }
-            });
+                data->self->m_responseHeader[key] = value;
+            }
             return size * nitems;
         });
 
@@ -572,7 +570,12 @@ AsyncWebRequest& AsyncWebRequest::timeout(std::chrono::seconds seconds) {
 }
 
 AsyncWebRequest& AsyncWebRequest::header(std::string_view const header) {
-    m_impl->m_httpHeaders.push_back(std::string(header));
+    std::string str(header);
+    // remove \r and \n
+    str.erase(std::remove_if(str.begin(), str.end(), [](char c) {
+        return c == '\r' || c == '\n';
+    }), str.end());
+    m_impl->m_httpHeaders.push_back(str);
     return *this;
 }