diff --git a/sources/subs/Package.subs.php b/sources/subs/Package.subs.php
index 6aa62e369c..49dea59064 100644
--- a/sources/subs/Package.subs.php
+++ b/sources/subs/Package.subs.php
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
  */
 function read_tgz_file($gzfilename, $destination, $single_file = false, $overwrite = false, $files_to_extract = null)
 {
-	if (substr($gzfilename, 0, 7) == 'http://')
+	if (substr($gzfilename, 0, 7) == 'http://' || substr($gzfilename, 0, 8) == 'https://')
 	{
 		$data = fetch_web_data($gzfilename);