diff --git a/src/mgr/curlhttpt.cpp b/src/mgr/curlhttpt.cpp
index cccd0ba..23db786 100644
--- a/src/mgr/curlhttpt.cpp
+++ b/src/mgr/curlhttpt.cpp
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ char CURLHTTPTransport::getURL(const char *destPath, const char *sourceURL, SWBu
 		/* Switch on full protocol/debug output */
 		curl_easy_setopt(session, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
 		
+		/* Disable checking host certificate */
+		curl_easy_setopt(session, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
+
 		/* FTP connection settings */
 
 #if (LIBCURL_VERSION_MAJOR > 7) || \
diff --git a/src/mgr/installmgr.cpp b/src/mgr/installmgr.cpp
index b75df6f..2c28735 100644
--- a/src/mgr/installmgr.cpp
+++ b/src/mgr/installmgr.cpp
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ void InstallMgr::readInstallConf() {
 	ConfigEntMap::iterator sourceEnd;
 
 	if (confSection != installConf->Sections.end()) {
+		// Lots of duplicated code in this block now, we could probably refactor it
 		sourceBegin = confSection->second.lower_bound("FTPSource");
 		sourceEnd = confSection->second.upper_bound("FTPSource");
 
@@ -169,6 +170,18 @@ void InstallMgr::readInstallConf() {
 			is->localShadow = (SWBuf)privatePath + "/" + is->uid;
 			sourceBegin++;
 		}
+
+		sourceBegin = confSection->second.lower_bound("HTTPSSource");
+		sourceEnd   = confSection->second.upper_bound("HTTPSSource");
+
+		while (sourceBegin != sourceEnd) {
+			InstallSource *is = new InstallSource("HTTPS", sourceBegin->second.c_str());
+			sources[is->caption] = is;
+			SWBuf parent = (SWBuf)privatePath + "/" + is->uid + "/file";
+			FileMgr::createParent(parent.c_str());
+			is->localShadow = (SWBuf)privatePath + "/" + is->uid;
+			sourceBegin++;
+		}
 	}
 
 	defaultMods.clear();
@@ -282,7 +295,7 @@ SWLog::getSystemLog()->logDebug("netCopy: %s, %s, %s, %c, %s", (is?is->source.c_
 		trans = createFTPTransport(is->source, statusReporter);
 		trans->setPassive(passive);
 	}
-	else if (is->type == "HTTP") {
+	else if (is->type == "HTTP" || is->type == "HTTPS") {
 		trans = createHTTPTransport(is->source, statusReporter);
 	}
 	transport = trans; // set classwide current transport for other thread terminate() call
@@ -295,7 +308,13 @@ SWLog::getSystemLog()->logDebug("netCopy: %s, %s, %s, %c, %s", (is?is->source.c_
 		trans->setPasswd(p);
 	}
 
-	SWBuf urlPrefix = (SWBuf)((is->type == "HTTP") ? "http://" : "ftp://") + is->source;
+	SWBuf urlPrefix = is->source;
+	if(is->type == "FTP")
+		urlPrefix = (SWBuf) "ftp://" + urlPrefix;
+	else if(is->type == "HTTP")
+		urlPrefix = (SWBuf) "http://" + urlPrefix;
+	else if(is->type == "HTTPS")
+		urlPrefix = (SWBuf) "https://" + urlPrefix;
 
 	// let's be sure we can connect.  This seems to be necessary but sucks
 //	SWBuf url = urlPrefix + is->directory.c_str() + "/"; //dont forget the final slash