diff --git a/samples/sampleNMT/get_newstest2015.sh b/samples/sampleNMT/get_newstest2015.sh
index b42cca22..2527daae 100755
--- a/samples/sampleNMT/get_newstest2015.sh
+++ b/samples/sampleNMT/get_newstest2015.sh
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ fi
 
 echo "Downloading newstests..."
 curl -o ${OUTPUT_DIR}/dev.tgz \
-  http://data.statmt.org/wmt16/translation-task/dev.tgz
+  https://data.statmt.org/wmt16/translation-task/dev.tgz
 
 # Extract everything
 echo "Extracting newstest data..."