diff --git a/scripts/download.pl b/scripts/download.pl
index f5c3f71056..324cfdb3b3 100755
--- a/scripts/download.pl
+++ b/scripts/download.pl
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ foreach my $mirror (@ARGV) {
 	if ($mirror =~ /^\@SF\/(.+)$/) {
 		# give sourceforge a few more tries, because it redirects to different mirrors
 		for (1 .. 5) {
-			push @mirrors, "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/$1";
+			push @mirrors, "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/$1";
 		}
 	} elsif ($mirror =~ /^\@APACHE\/(.+)$/) {
 		push @mirrors, "https://mirror.netcologne.de/apache.org/$1";