diff --git a/cmd/crawl/crawl.go b/cmd/crawl/crawl.go
index b54b999b6f00c0ea8a80b1a15992770a52c5325b..1637a62775310b949cb23094273b4ab8ee3e96df 100644
--- a/cmd/crawl/crawl.go
+++ b/cmd/crawl/crawl.go
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ var (
 	dnsMap   = dnsMapFlag(make(map[string]string))
 	excludes []*regexp.Regexp
 
-	httpClient *http.Client
+	httpClient = crawl.DefaultClient
 )
 
 func init() {