diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/Http/HttpClientFixture.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/Http/HttpClientFixture.cs
index eb918016f..a83756320 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/Http/HttpClientFixture.cs
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/Http/HttpClientFixture.cs
@@ -271,6 +271,18 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Test.Http
             response.Resource.Headers[header].ToString().Should().Be(value);
         }
 
+        [Test]
+        public void should_download_file()
+        {
+            var file = GetTempFilePath();
+
+            var url = "https://sonarr.tv/img/slider/seriesdetails.png";
+
+            Subject.DownloadFile(url, file);
+
+            File.Exists(file).Should().BeTrue();
+        }
+
         [Test]
         public void should_not_download_file_with_error()
         {
diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/Dispatchers/ManagedHttpDispatcher.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/Dispatchers/ManagedHttpDispatcher.cs
index 9ca1d9e1d..83773b2b2 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/Dispatchers/ManagedHttpDispatcher.cs
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/Dispatchers/ManagedHttpDispatcher.cs
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Http.Dispatchers
         {
             var webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create((Uri)request.Url);
 
-            if (PlatformInfo.IsMono)
+            if (PlatformInfo.IsMono && request.ResponseStream == null)
             {
                 // On Mono GZipStream/DeflateStream leaks memory if an exception is thrown, use an intermediate buffer in that case.
                 webRequest.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.None;
@@ -121,19 +121,27 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Http.Dispatchers
                 {
                     try
                     {
-                        data = responseStream.ToBytes();
-
-                        if (PlatformInfo.IsMono && httpWebResponse.ContentEncoding == "gzip")
+                        if (request.ResponseStream != null)
+                        {
+                            // A target ResponseStream was specified, write to that instead.
+                            responseStream.CopyTo(request.ResponseStream);
+                        }
+                        else
                         {
-                            using (var compressedStream = new MemoryStream(data))
-                            using (var gzip = new GZipStream(compressedStream, CompressionMode.Decompress))
-                            using (var decompressedStream = new MemoryStream())
+                            data = responseStream.ToBytes();
+
+                            if (PlatformInfo.IsMono && httpWebResponse.ContentEncoding == "gzip")
                             {
-                                gzip.CopyTo(decompressedStream);
-                                data = decompressedStream.ToArray();
+                                using (var compressedStream = new MemoryStream(data))
+                                using (var gzip = new GZipStream(compressedStream, CompressionMode.Decompress))
+                                using (var decompressedStream = new MemoryStream())
+                                {
+                                    gzip.CopyTo(decompressedStream);
+                                    data = decompressedStream.ToArray();
+                                }
+
+                                httpWebResponse.Headers.Remove("Content-Encoding");
                             }
-
-                            httpWebResponse.Headers.Remove("Content-Encoding");
                         }
                     }
                     catch (Exception ex)
diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpClient.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpClient.cs
index 58896af48..ccde3a50d 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpClient.cs
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpClient.cs
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Http
                 response = interceptor.PostResponse(response);
             }
 
-            if (request.LogResponseContent)
+            if (request.LogResponseContent && response.ResponseData != null)
             {
                 _logger.Trace("Response content ({0} bytes): {1}", response.ResponseData.Length, response.Content);
             }
@@ -240,9 +240,12 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Http
                 _logger.Debug("Downloading [{0}] to [{1}]", url, fileName);
 
                 var stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
-                var webClient = new GZipWebClient();
-                webClient.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent, _userAgentBuilder.GetUserAgent());
-                webClient.DownloadFile(url, fileName);
+                using (var fileStream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
+                {
+                    var request = new HttpRequest(url);
+                    request.ResponseStream = fileStream;
+                    var response = Get(request);
+                }
                 stopWatch.Stop();
                 _logger.Debug("Downloading Completed. took {0:0}s", stopWatch.Elapsed.Seconds);
             }
diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpRequest.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpRequest.cs
index 301890804..2519531ca 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpRequest.cs
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/HttpRequest.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
 using System.Text;
 using NzbDrone.Common.EnvironmentInfo;
 using NzbDrone.Common.Extensions;
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Http
         public bool StoreResponseCookie { get; set; }
         public TimeSpan RequestTimeout { get; set; }
         public TimeSpan RateLimit { get; set; }
+        public Stream ResponseStream { get; set; }
 
         public override string ToString()
         {