diff --git a/gl3w_gen.py b/gl3w_gen.py
index 27bfb6c..9f6c643 100755
--- a/gl3w_gen.py
+++ b/gl3w_gen.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 import argparse
 import os
 import re
+import ssl
 
 # Try to import Python 3 library urllib.request
 # and if it fails, fall back to Python 2 urllib2
@@ -87,6 +88,8 @@ def download(url, dst):
         print('Reusing {0}...'.format(dst))
         return
 
+    ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
+    
     print('Downloading {0}...'.format(dst))
     web = urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request(url, headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}))
     with open(dst, 'wb') as f: