diff --git a/clients/fossid-webapp/src/main/kotlin/model/result/Snippet.kt b/clients/fossid-webapp/src/main/kotlin/model/result/Snippet.kt
index 50f51a4bf8c41..6446877059bb2 100644
--- a/clients/fossid-webapp/src/main/kotlin/model/result/Snippet.kt
+++ b/clients/fossid-webapp/src/main/kotlin/model/result/Snippet.kt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ data class Snippet(
 
     val file: String,
     val fileLicense: String?,
-    val url: String?,
+    val url: String,
     val hits: String,
     val size: Int?,
 
diff --git a/scanner/src/main/kotlin/scanners/fossid/FossId.kt b/scanner/src/main/kotlin/scanners/fossid/FossId.kt
index 756b316b2feef..33cbe9f0a894d 100644
--- a/scanner/src/main/kotlin/scanners/fossid/FossId.kt
+++ b/scanner/src/main/kotlin/scanners/fossid/FossId.kt
@@ -822,10 +822,8 @@ class FossId internal constructor(
 
                 // FossID does not return the hash of the remote artifact. Instead, it returns the MD5 hash of the
                 // matched file in the remote artifact as part of the "match_file_id" property.
-                val snippetProvenance = it.url?.let { url ->
-                    ArtifactProvenance(RemoteArtifact(url, Hash.NONE))
-                } ?: UnknownProvenance
-                val purlType = it.url?.let { url -> urlToPackageType(url).toString() }
+                val snippetProvenance = ArtifactProvenance(RemoteArtifact(it.url, Hash.NONE))
+                val purlType = urlToPackageType(it.url).toString()
 
                 // TODO: FossID doesn't return the line numbers of the match, only the character range. One must use
                 //       another call "getMatchedLine" to retrieve the matched line numbers. Unfortunately, this is a