diff --git a/content/fetch.c b/content/fetch.c
index 2b16512fa..51eed0e2f 100644
--- a/content/fetch.c
+++ b/content/fetch.c
@@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ fetch_set_cookie(struct fetch *fetch, const char *data)
 		/* If the transaction's verifiable, we don't require
 		 * that the request uri and the parent domain match,
 		 * so don't pass in any referer/parent in this case. */
-		urldb_set_cookie(data, nsurl_access(fetch->url), NULL);
+		urldb_set_cookie(data, fetch->url, NULL);
 	} else if (fetch->referer != NULL) {
 		/* Permit the cookie to be set if the fetch is unverifiable
 		 * and the fetch URI domain matches the referer. */
@@ -739,8 +739,7 @@ fetch_set_cookie(struct fetch *fetch, const char *data)
 		 * where a nested object requests a fetch, the origin URI
 		 * is the nested object's parent URI, whereas the referer
 		 * for the fetch will be the nested object's URI. */
-		urldb_set_cookie(data, nsurl_access(fetch->url),
-				nsurl_access(fetch->referer));
+		urldb_set_cookie(data, fetch->url, fetch->referer);
 	}
 }