diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp_git.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp_git.bb
index 23db1d6..37d5d81 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp_git.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/abseil-cpp/abseil-cpp_git.bb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 PV = "20210324.2+git${SRCPV}"
 SRCREV = "278e0a071885a22dcd2fd1b5576cc44757299343"
 BRANCH = "lts_2021_03_24"
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp;branch=${BRANCH}         \
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp;branch=${BRANCH};protocol=https \
            file://0001-absl-always-use-asm-sgidefs.h.patch             \
            file://0002-Remove-maes-option-from-cross-compilation.patch \
            file://abseil-ppc-fixes.patch \