diff --git a/nixos/tests/syncthing-relay.nix b/nixos/tests/syncthing-relay.nix
index cd72ef1cbe1..c144bf7fca3 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/syncthing-relay.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/syncthing-relay.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import ./make-test-python.nix ({ lib, pkgs, ... }: {
     machine.wait_for_open_port(12346)
 
     out = machine.succeed(
-        "curl -sS http://localhost:12346/status | jq -r '.options.\"provided-by\"'"
+        "curl -sSf http://localhost:12346/status | jq -r '.options.\"provided-by\"'"
     )
     assert "nixos-test" in out
   '';
diff --git a/nixos/tests/syncthing.nix b/nixos/tests/syncthing.nix
index 9e2a8e01e3f..ac9df5e50c8 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/syncthing.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/syncthing.nix
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import ./make-test-python.nix ({ lib, pkgs, ... }: {
             "xmllint --xpath 'string(configuration/gui/apikey)' %s/config.xml" % confdir
         ).strip()
         oldConf = host.succeed(
-            "curl -Ss -H 'X-API-Key: %s' 127.0.0.1:8384/rest/system/config" % APIKey
+            "curl -Ssf -H 'X-API-Key: %s' 127.0.0.1:8384/rest/system/config" % APIKey
         )
         conf = json.loads(oldConf)
         conf["devices"].append({"deviceID": deviceID, "id": name})
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ import ./make-test-python.nix ({ lib, pkgs, ... }: {
         )
         newConf = json.dumps(conf)
         host.succeed(
-            "curl -Ss -H 'X-API-Key: %s' 127.0.0.1:8384/rest/system/config -d %s"
+            "curl -Ssf -H 'X-API-Key: %s' 127.0.0.1:8384/rest/system/config -d %s"
             % (APIKey, shlex.quote(newConf))
         )