Unable to download/load torrents from URL

[passthestyles]

I have installed rtorrent 0.9.6/0.13.6 with ruTorrent 3.7 on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS

The issue is similar to this: https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent/issues/553

Logs are empty, and it gives me the error as such:

[2017-05-27 22:03:41] https://privatetracker.com/torrents.php?action=download&id=12345&authkey=MY_AUTH_KEY&torrent_pass=MY_TORRENT_PWD - Failed to add torrent. Can't retrieve URL.

This is after a brand new install of Ubuntu and rtorrent/rutorrent/etc. (it was working before, and I just had to reinstall Ubuntu server and start over from scratch).

Notes:

• This seems to affect some private trackers, not all.
• The same URL that doesn't load in rutorrent, loads fine in utorrent (via URL) on my home machine.
• The same URL also downloads a torrent just fine in any browser on my home machine (regardless of whether I am logged in or not, though it shouldn't matter as it has AUTHKEY and TORRENTPWD in the URL).
• wget -o torrent.torrent "URL" and curl -o torrent.torrent "URL" works fine (able to download the torrent) from seedbox with rutorrent installed
• autodl-irssi can download torrents just fine (not sure if related, but the irssi grabs the same URL)
• loading via Torrent Upload, or watch directory works fine (probably unrelated).
• Loading via URL in rtorrent itself works fine (so don't think it is a rtorrent issue, but that of rutorrent?)

Other notes: This was installed via Quickbox (2.5.1, latest version). Previous version that I was on was v2.4.7

Edit: I installed rtorrent/rutorrent manually (not with Quickbox), and I am still getting the same error. So it's not Quickbox. I am thinking this is an issue with my linux box itself (I seem to be the only one with this)

Any help would be appreciated

[passthestyles]

Closing issue, better posted in ruTorrent