diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index c66d523..762181b 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 language: c # defaults to ruby
 install:
   - sudo apt-get install zsh -y # ksh
-  - (mkdir /tmp/urchin && cd /tmp/urchin && curl -s "$(curl -s http://registry.npmjs.org/urchin | grep -Eo '"tarball":\s*"[^"]+"' | tail -n 1 | awk -F\" '{ print $4 }')" -O && tar -x -f urchin*)
+  - (mkdir /tmp/urchin && cd /tmp/urchin && curl -s "$(curl -s https://registry.npmjs.com/urchin | grep -Eo '"tarball":\s*"[^"]+"' | tail -n 1 | awk -F\" '{ print $4 }')" -O && tar -x -f urchin*)
   - chmod +x /tmp/urchin/package/urchin
   - '[ -z "$WITHOUT_CURL" ] || sudo apt-get remove curl -y'
 script:
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index d3bb5c8..b92ca20 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 First you'll need to make sure your system has a c++ compiler. For OSX, XCode will work, for Ubuntu, the build-essential and libssl-dev packages work.
 
 Note: `nvm` does not support Windows (see [#284](https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/284)). Two alternatives exist, which are not supported nor developed by us:
- - [nvmw](http://github.com/hakobera/nvmw)
- - [nvm-windows](http://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows)
+ - [nvmw](https://github.com/hakobera/nvmw)
+ - [nvm-windows](https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows)
 
 ### Install script
 
@@ -95,10 +95,10 @@ To set a default Node version to be used in any new shell, use the alias 'defaul
 
 To use a mirror of the node binaries, set `$NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR`:
 
-    export NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR=http://nodejs.org/dist
+    export NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR=https://nodejs.org/dist
     nvm install 0.10
 
-    NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR=http://nodejs.org/dist nvm install 0.10
+    NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR=https://nodejs.org/dist nvm install 0.10
 
 `nvm use` will not, by default, create a "current" symlink. Set `$NVM_SYMLINK_CURRENT` to "true" to enable this behavior, which is sometimes useful for IDEs.