diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb
index d100030..c161781 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/xdelta/xdelta3_3.1.0.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 LICENSE = "GPLv2"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=393a5ca445f6965873eca0259a17f833"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/jmacd/xdelta.git;branch=release3_1_apl"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/jmacd/xdelta.git;branch=release3_1_apl;protocol=https"
 SRCREV = "4b4aed71a959fe11852e45242bb6524be85d3709"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git/xdelta3"