diff --git a/docs/HISTORY.txt b/docs/HISTORY.txt
index 5363ef1..ac85d65 100644
--- a/docs/HISTORY.txt
+++ b/docs/HISTORY.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Changelog
 
 3.2.dev0 - (unreleased)
 -----------------------
+* Change: updated URLs pointing to eea.europa.eu with https://
+  [alecghica refs #95849]
 
 3.1 - (2017-12-12)
 ------------------
diff --git a/sparql.py b/sparql.py
index 2e4b8a3..a0f538e 100755
--- a/sparql.py
+++ b/sparql.py
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 except Exception:
     __version__ = "2.6"
 
-USER_AGENT =  "sparql-client/%s +http://www.eionet.europa.eu/software/sparql-client/" % __version__
+USER_AGENT =  "sparql-client/%s +https://www.eionet.europa.eu/software/sparql-client/" % __version__
 
 CONTENT_TYPE = {
                  'turtle' : "application/turtle" ,