diff --git a/docs/source/whats_new.rst b/docs/source/whats_new.rst
index 1be4bcfe1..3f64aa209 100644
--- a/docs/source/whats_new.rst
+++ b/docs/source/whats_new.rst
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Bugs
 - Fix :func:`moabb.paradigms.base.BaseParadigm` using attributes before defining them  (PR :gh:`408`, issue :gh:`425` by `Pierre Guetschel`_)
 - Fix :func:`moabb.paradigms.FakeImageryParadigm`, :func:`moabb.paradigms.FakeP300Paradigm` and :func:`moabb.paradigms.FakeSSVEPParadigm` ``is_valid`` methods to only accept the correct datasets (PR :gh:`408` by `Pierre Guetschel`_)
 - Fix ``dataset_list`` construction, which could be empty due to bad import order (PR :gh:`449` by `Thomas Moreau`_).
+- Fixing dataset downloader from servers with non-http (PR :gh:`433` by `Sara Sedlar`_)
 
 API changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/moabb/datasets/download.py b/moabb/datasets/download.py
index f1b166b3f..4684a89fe 100644
--- a/moabb/datasets/download.py
+++ b/moabb/datasets/download.py
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
 from mne import get_config, set_config
 from mne.datasets.utils import _get_path
 from mne.utils import _url_to_local_path, verbose
-from pooch import HTTPDownloader, file_hash, retrieve
+from pooch import file_hash, retrieve
+from pooch.downloaders import choose_downloader
 from requests.exceptions import HTTPError
 
 
@@ -139,7 +140,9 @@ def data_dl(url, sign, path=None, force_update=False, verbose=None):
     table = {ord(c): "-" for c in ':*?"<>|'}
     destination = Path(str(path) + destination.split(str(path))[1].translate(table))
 
-    downloader = HTTPDownloader(verify=False)
+    downloader = choose_downloader(url, progressbar=True)
+    if type(downloader).__name__ in ["HTTPDownloader", "DOIDownloader"]:
+        downloader.kwargs.setdefault("verify", False)
 
     # Fetch the file
     if not destination.is_file() or force_update: