diff --git a/src/config/user_config.hpp b/src/config/user_config.hpp
index fb2485c55..93650c075 100644
--- a/src/config/user_config.hpp
+++ b/src/config/user_config.hpp
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ namespace UserConfigParams
                                           "Everything related to online play.") );
 
     PARAM_PREFIX StringUserConfigParam      m_server_multiplayer
-            PARAM_DEFAULT( StringUserConfigParam(   "http://api.stkaddons.net/",
+            PARAM_DEFAULT( StringUserConfigParam(   "https://api.stkaddons.net/",
                                                      "server_multiplayer",
                                                      &m_online_group,
                                                     "The server used for online multiplayer."));
diff --git a/src/online/request.cpp b/src/online/request.cpp
index 3a889c2bb..f65444165 100644
--- a/src/online/request.cpp
+++ b/src/online/request.cpp
@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ namespace Online{
         curl_easy_setopt(m_curl_session, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 20);
         curl_easy_setopt(m_curl_session, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 10);
         curl_easy_setopt(m_curl_session, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_TIME, 20);
+        //https
+        struct curl_slist *chunk = NULL;
+        chunk = curl_slist_append(chunk, "Host: api.stkaddons.net");
+        curl_easy_setopt(m_curl_session, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, chunk);
+        curl_easy_setopt(m_curl_session, CURLOPT_CAINFO, (file_manager->getDataDir() + "web.tuxfamily.org.pem").c_str());
+        curl_easy_setopt(m_curl_session, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
+        curl_easy_setopt(m_curl_session, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L);
     }
 
     void HTTPRequest::operation()