diff --git a/act/discovery/arm.py b/act/discovery/arm.py
index 25e98716b7..1fda756913 100644
--- a/act/discovery/arm.py
+++ b/act/discovery/arm.py
@@ -112,11 +112,7 @@ def download_arm_data(username, token, datastream, startdate, enddate, time=None
 
     # get url response, read the body of the message,
     # and decode from bytes type to utf-8 string
-    try:
-        response_body = urlopen(query_url).read().decode('utf-8')
-    except Exception:
-        raise ValueError(query_url)
-        return
+    response_body = urlopen(query_url).read().decode('utf-8')
     # if the response is an html doc, then there was an error with the user
     if response_body[1:14] == '!DOCTYPE html':
         raise ConnectionRefusedError('Error with user. Check username or token.')