diff --git a/src/server/slave.c b/src/server/slave.c
--- a/src/server/slave.c
+++ b/src/server/slave.c
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ for(counter=0; counter<argc; counter++){
 	}
 /* End arg parser */
 
-
 /* Option getter: Creates vars to grab stuff from conf, uses the options include to grab this data */
 char *username;
 char *datadir;
@@ -193,7 +192,7 @@ if(gotframe ==1)
     }
 
     /* Variable-fillers which require XML */
-    outputExt = myjob.outputFormat; /* @TODO: FIXME! */
+    // outputExt = myjob.outputFormat; /* @TODO: FIXME! */
     _distren_asprintf(&pathtoOutput, "%s/job%d/output/frame%d.%s", datadir, jobnum, framenum, outputExt ); // Prepares the path to the jobfile
 
 
diff --git a/src/server/slavefuncs.c b/src/server/slavefuncs.c
--- a/src/server/slavefuncs.c
+++ b/src/server/slavefuncs.c
@@ -78,8 +78,17 @@ size_t curl_writetodisk(void *ptr, size_
     return fwrite(ptr, size, nmemb, stream);
   }
 
+/** Helper function for cURL's progressbar */
+int curl_progress( char *Bar,double t,double d,double ultotal,double ulnow)
+{
+fprintf(stderr,"Downloading... %f%% complete\r",d/t*100);
+return 0;
+}
+
 /** Retrieves a URL with cURL and saves it to disk */
 int curlget(char *url, char *out){
+
+  double *Bar; // Stores cURL progressbar info
   CURL *curl;
   CURLcode res;
   FILE *outfile;
@@ -91,9 +100,13 @@ int curlget(char *url, char *out){
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, outfile);
   curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, curl_writetodisk); // this MUST be set for win32 compat.
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 0);
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, curl_progress);
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSDATA, &Bar);
   res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
   curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
   }
+  fprintf(stderr,"\n"); // Clears out he progressbar's carriage return
   return res; // 0 means OK, nonzero means AAAH badness
 }