diff --git a/clab/clab.go b/clab/clab.go
index 614e086ac..01faf083a 100644
--- a/clab/clab.go
+++ b/clab/clab.go
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ func (c *CLab) ProcessTopoPath(path string) (string, error) {
 		}
 	// if the path is not a local file and a URL, download the file and store it in the tmp dir
 	case !utils.FileOrDirExists(path) && utils.IsHttpURL(path, true):
-		file, err = downloadTopoFile(path, c.TopoPaths.ClabTmpDir())
+		file, err = c.downloadTopoFile(path)
 		if err != nil {
 			return "", err
 		}
diff --git a/types/topo_paths.go b/types/topo_paths.go
index d1c93ef6f..9d9cb8042 100644
--- a/types/topo_paths.go
+++ b/types/topo_paths.go
@@ -183,6 +183,12 @@ func (*TopoPaths) ClabTmpDir() string {
 	return clabTmpDir
 }
 
+// StartupConfigDownloadFileAbsPath returns the absolute path to the startup-config file
+// when it is downloaded from a remote location to the clab temp directory.
+func (t *TopoPaths) StartupConfigDownloadFileAbsPath(node, postfix string) string {
+	return filepath.Join(t.ClabTmpDir(), fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s-%s", t.topoName, node, postfix))
+}
+
 // DownloadFileTmpAbsPath returns the absolute path to a file
 // when it is downloaded from a remote location to the clab temp directory.
 func (t *TopoPaths) DownloadFileTmpAbsPath(node string, postfix string) string {