diff --git a/app/services/character_image_validator.rb b/app/services/character_image_validator.rb
index 62b0a5a..94f1ba2 100644
--- a/app/services/character_image_validator.rb
+++ b/app/services/character_image_validator.rb
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ class CharacterImageValidator
       http.use_ssl = true
       http.open_timeout = 5
       http.read_timeout = 5
+      # Skip CRL verification in development (Akamai CDN can have CRL issues locally)
+      http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE if Rails.env.development?
 
       request = Net::HTTP::Head.new(uri.request_uri)
       response = http.request(request)