diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hrudyplayz/mcinstanceloader/Config.java b/src/main/java/com/hrudyplayz/mcinstanceloader/Config.java
index 2514e13..bfff537 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hrudyplayz/mcinstanceloader/Config.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hrudyplayz/mcinstanceloader/Config.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ public class Config {
     public static int closeGameTimer;
     public static int amountOfDisplayedErrors;
     public static String[] successMessage;
+    public static boolean allowSSLCertificateBypass;
 
     public static String CATEGORY_BEHAVIOR = "Behavior";
     public static String CATEGORY_GUI = "GUI";
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ public static void createConfigFile() {
         skipFileDisabling = config.getBoolean("Skip file disabling", CATEGORY_BEHAVIOR, false, "Whether to skip the step that disables the pack.mcinstance file and deletes the temp folder. Useful for pack devs.");
         deleteInsteadOfRenaming = config.getBoolean("Delete MCInstance directly", CATEGORY_BEHAVIOR, false, "Wheter to delete the pack.mcinstance file instead of renaming it.");
         disableStopModRepostsCheck = config.getBoolean("Disable StopModReposts check", CATEGORY_BEHAVIOR, false, "Whether to disable the StopModReposts check, used to prevent the use of malware sites. It's recommended to keep it enabled.");
+        allowSSLCertificateBypass = config.getBoolean("Allow SSL Certificate bypass", CATEGORY_BEHAVIOR, false, "Whether to allow the bypass of SSL Certificates if this cause problems. This may fix download issues in some launchers.");
         disableCache = config.getBoolean("Disable the cache system", CATEGORY_BEHAVIOR, false, "Whether to disable the cache system, forcing every resource to be downloaded regardless of the cached value.");
 
         useHttpProxy = config.getBoolean("Use proxy", CATEGORY_BEHAVIOR, false, "This will enable proxy when downing files.");
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hrudyplayz/mcinstanceloader/utils/WebHelper.java b/src/main/java/com/hrudyplayz/mcinstanceloader/utils/WebHelper.java
index dc92ef5..2d01ada 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hrudyplayz/mcinstanceloader/utils/WebHelper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hrudyplayz/mcinstanceloader/utils/WebHelper.java
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.*;
+import java.security.KeyManagementException;
+import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
+import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
+import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
@@ -11,6 +15,11 @@
 import com.hrudyplayz.mcinstanceloader.Config;
 import com.hrudyplayz.mcinstanceloader.Main;
 
+import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
+import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
+import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
+import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;
+
 /**
 An helper class to download files from the internet.
 
@@ -23,6 +32,8 @@ public class WebHelper {
     public static String USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) twitch-desktop-electron-platform/1.0.0 Chrome/73.0.3683.121 Electron/5.0.12 Safari/537.36 desklight/8.51.0";
     public static String REFERER = "https://www.google.com";
 
+    public static Boolean checkSSLCertificates = true;
+
     /**
     Downloads a specific file from an internet address and saves it to a given location.
 
@@ -70,19 +81,28 @@ private static boolean downloadFile(String fileURL, String savePath, boolean don
 
             File file = new File(savePath);
             FileUtils.copyInputStreamToFile(connection.getInputStream(), file);
+            file.canRead();
+            if (doneIOException)
+                LogHelper.info("Successfully downloaded file on the second attempt.");
             return true;
         }
         catch (IOException e) {
             if (!doneIOException) {
-                LogHelper.info("An error occured while downloading the file, trying again...");
+                LogHelper.info("An error occurred while downloading the file, trying again...");
                 try {
                     TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.sleep(1000);
                 }
                 catch (InterruptedException ignore) {}
 
+                if (Config.allowSSLCertificateBypass && checkSSLCertificates) {
+                    LogHelper.info("Attempting to resolve issues by bypassing SSL certificates.");
+                    disableSSLCertificateChecking();
+                }
+
                 return downloadFile(fileURL, savePath, true);
             }
             else {
+
                 Main.errorContext = "There was an issue writing to file.";
                 e.printStackTrace();
                 return false;
@@ -146,4 +166,37 @@ public static boolean downloadFile(String fileURL, String savePath, String[] fol
 
         return downloadFile(fileURL, savePath);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Disables the SSL certificate checking for new instances of {@link HttpsURLConnection} This has been created to
+     * aid testing on a local box, not for use on production.
+     */
+    private static void disableSSLCertificateChecking() {
+        TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {
+            public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException {
+                // Not implemented
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException {
+                // Not implemented
+            }
+        } };
+
+        try {
+            SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
+
+            sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
+
+            HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
+        } catch (KeyManagementException | NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+        checkSSLCertificates = false;
+    }
 }