diff --git a/bareon/tests/test_utils.py b/bareon/tests/test_utils.py
index 181fa48..5fe0be7 100644
--- a/bareon/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/bareon/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -244,6 +244,14 @@ class ExecuteTestCase(unittest2.TestCase):
         self.assertRaises(errors.HttpUrlConnectionError,
                           utils.init_http_request, 'http://fake_url')
 
+    @mock.patch('time.sleep')
+    @mock.patch.object(requests, 'get')
+    def test_init_http_request_max_retries_exceeded_HTTPerror(
+            self, mock_req, mock_s):
+        mock_req.side_effect = requests.exceptions.HTTPError
+        self.assertRaises(errors.HttpUrlConnectionError,
+                          utils.init_http_request, 'http://fake_url')
+
     @mock.patch('bareon.utils.utils.os.makedirs')
     @mock.patch('bareon.utils.utils.os.path.isdir', return_value=False)
     def test_makedirs_if_not_exists(self, mock_isdir, mock_makedirs):
diff --git a/bareon/utils/utils.py b/bareon/utils/utils.py
index 2a38250..0af6cf9 100644
--- a/bareon/utils/utils.py
+++ b/bareon/utils/utils.py
@@ -255,12 +255,14 @@ def init_http_request(url, byte_range=0, proxies=None, noproxy_addrs=None):
                     timeout=CONF.http_request_timeout,
                     headers={'Range': 'bytes=%s-' % byte_range},
                     proxies=proxies)
+                response_obj.raise_for_status()
             except (socket.timeout,
                     urllib3.exceptions.DecodeError,
                     urllib3.exceptions.ProxyError,
                     requests.exceptions.ConnectionError,
                     requests.exceptions.Timeout,
-                    requests.exceptions.TooManyRedirects) as e:
+                    requests.exceptions.TooManyRedirects,
+                    requests.exceptions.HTTPError) as e:
                 LOG.debug("Got non-critical error when accessing to %s "
                           "on %s attempt: %s", url, retry + 1, e)
             else:
@@ -272,7 +274,6 @@ def init_http_request(url, byte_range=0, proxies=None, noproxy_addrs=None):
         else:
             raise errors.HttpUrlConnectionError(
                 "Exceeded maximum http request retries for %s".format(url))
-    response_obj.raise_for_status()
     return response_obj