diff --git a/common/common.cpp b/common/common.cpp
index 5e9f7fa05..6d0dce601 100644
--- a/common/common.cpp
+++ b/common/common.cpp
@@ -2099,8 +2099,7 @@ struct llama_model * llama_load_model_from_url(
     }
 
     if(params.hf_token!=NULL){
-        struct curl_slist *headers = NULL;
-        headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Authorization: Bearer " + params.hf_token);
+        struct curl_slist * headers = curl_slist_append(NULL, "Authorization: Bearer " + params.hf_token);
         curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
     }
 
diff --git a/common/common.h b/common/common.h
index cca44268e..81b873cec 100644
--- a/common/common.h
+++ b/common/common.h
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ struct gpt_params {
     std::string model_url            = "";  // model url to download
     std::string hf_repo              = "";  // HF repo
     std::string hf_file              = "";  // HF file
+    std::string hf_token             = "";  // HF token
     std::string prompt               = "";
     std::string prompt_file          = "";  // store the external prompt file name
     std::string path_prompt_cache    = "";  // path to file for saving/loading prompt eval state