diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.8.9.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.8.9.bb
index 8f9e61da72..63be2ac060 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.8.9.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh/libssh_0.8.9.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=dabb4958b830e5df11d2b0ed8ea255a0"
 
 DEPENDS = "zlib openssl"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git;branch=stable-0.8"
+SRC_URI = "git://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git;protocol=https;branch=stable-0.8"
 SRCREV = "04685a74df9ce1db1bc116a83a0da78b4f4fa1f8"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"