diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 28ca0318e..37b90e492 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ install_requires =
     ruamel.yaml >=0.15, <1
     semantic-version
     tenacity
+    # possibly silently incomplete downloads: https://github.com/dandi/dandi-cli/issues/1500
+    urllib3 >= 2.0.0
     yarl ~= 1.9
     zarr ~= 2.10
     zarr_checksum ~= 0.4.0