diff --git a/htroot/env/templates/submenuIndexImport.template b/htroot/env/templates/submenuIndexImport.template
index d85b313c2..39a1029a3 100644
--- a/htroot/env/templates/submenuIndexImport.template
+++ b/htroot/env/templates/submenuIndexImport.template
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
       <li><a href="Load_RSS_p.html" class="MenuItemLink #(authorized)#lock::unlock#(/authorized)#">RSS Feed Importer</a></li>
       <li><a href="IndexImportOAIPMH_p.html" class="MenuItemLink #(authorized)#lock::unlock#(/authorized)#">OAI-PMH Importer</a></li>
       <li><a href="IndexImportWarc_p.html" class="MenuItemLink #(authorized)#lock::unlock#(/authorized)#">Warc Importer</a></li>
+      <li><a href="IndexImportJsonList_p.html" class="MenuItemLink #(authorized)#lock::unlock#(/authorized)#">JsonList Importer</a></li>
     </ul>
   </div>
   
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/document/importer/JsonListImporter.java b/source/net/yacy/document/importer/JsonListImporter.java
index ac23db760..06082d701 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/document/importer/JsonListImporter.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/document/importer/JsonListImporter.java
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ public class JsonListImporter extends Thread implements Importer {
     private boolean abort;
     private final boolean deletewhendone;
 
-    public JsonListImporter(final File inputFile, final boolean deletewhendone) throws IOException {
+    public JsonListImporter(final File inputFile, final boolean gz, final boolean deletewhendone) throws IOException {
        super("JsonListImporter - from file " + inputFile.getName());
        this.lineCount = 0;
        this.consumed = 0;
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public class JsonListImporter extends Thread implements Importer {
        this.abort = false;
        this.deletewhendone = deletewhendone;
        this.source = new FileInputStream(inputFile);
-       if (this.name.endsWith(".gz")) this.source = new GZIPInputStream(this.source);
+       if (this.name.endsWith(".gz") || gz) this.source = new GZIPInputStream(this.source);
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ public class JsonListImporter extends Thread implements Importer {
 
     public void processSurrogateJson() throws IOException {
         this.startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        job = this;
 
         // start indexer threads which mostly care about tokenization and facet + synonym enrichment
         final int concurrency = Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors();
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/htroot/IndexImportJsonList_p.java b/source/net/yacy/htroot/IndexImportJsonList_p.java
index 785ba0248..fce17f270 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/htroot/IndexImportJsonList_p.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/htroot/IndexImportJsonList_p.java
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public class IndexImportJsonList_p {
                         final File sourcefile = new File(filename);
                         if (sourcefile.exists()) {
                             try {
-                                final JsonListImporter wi = new JsonListImporter(sourcefile, false);
+                                final JsonListImporter wi = new JsonListImporter(sourcefile, false, false);
                                 wi.start();
                                 prop.put("import_thread", "started");
                             } catch (final IOException ex) {
@@ -72,14 +72,25 @@ public class IndexImportJsonList_p {
                         }
                     } else {
                         final String urlstr = post.get("url");
+/*
+                                final HTTPClient client = new HTTPClient(ClientIdentification.yacyInternetCrawlerAgent);
+                                final byte[] b = client.GETbytes(urlstr, null, null, true);
+                                final File tempfile = File.createTempFile("jsonlistimporter", "");
+                                final FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(tempfile);
+                                fos.write(b);
+                                fos.close();
+                                client.close();
+ */
                         if (urlstr != null && urlstr.length() > 0) {
                             try {
                                 final URL url = new URL(urlstr);
-                                final File tempfile = File.createTempFile("jsonlistimporter", "");
+                                final String tempfilename = "jsonlistimporter";
+                                final boolean gz = urlstr.endsWith(".gz");
+                                final File tempfile = File.createTempFile(tempfilename, "");
                                 final FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(tempfile);
                                 fos.getChannel().transferFrom(Channels.newChannel(url.openStream()), 0, Long.MAX_VALUE);
                                 fos.close();
-                                final JsonListImporter wi = new JsonListImporter(tempfile, true);
+                                final JsonListImporter wi = new JsonListImporter(tempfile, gz, true);
                                 wi.start();
                                 prop.put("import_thread", "started");
                             } catch (final IOException ex) {
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java b/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
index 75a2411e0..a7a971ce5 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
@@ -2206,7 +2206,7 @@ public final class Switchboard extends serverSwitch {
         // see https://github.com/yacy/yacy_grid_parser/blob/master/README.md
         this.log.info("processing json surrogate " + infile);
         try {
-            final JsonListImporter importer = new JsonListImporter(infile, false);
+            final JsonListImporter importer = new JsonListImporter(infile, false, false);
             importer.run();
         } catch (final IOException e) {
             this.log.warn(e);