diff --git a/packages/connector-jsdom/src/connector.ts b/packages/connector-jsdom/src/connector.ts
index 2151a4d7fb5..1bff70fdc7e 100644
--- a/packages/connector-jsdom/src/connector.ts
+++ b/packages/connector-jsdom/src/connector.ts
@@ -398,7 +398,10 @@ export default class JSDOMConnector implements IConnector {
                 return resolve(result.evaluate);
             });
 
-            runner.send({ source });
+            runner.send({
+                options: this._options,
+                source
+            });
 
             /* istanbul ignore next */
             timeoutId = setTimeout(() => {
diff --git a/packages/connector-jsdom/src/evaluate-resource-loader.ts b/packages/connector-jsdom/src/evaluate-resource-loader.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7a893621884
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/connector-jsdom/src/evaluate-resource-loader.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import { Requester } from '@hint/utils-connector-tools';
+import { ResourceLoader } from 'jsdom';
+import { NetworkData } from 'hint';
+import { debug as d } from '@hint/utils';
+
+const debug: debug.IDebugger = d(__filename);
+
+export class EvaluateCustomResourceLoader extends ResourceLoader {
+    private _requester: Requester;
+    private _baseUrl: string;
+
+    public constructor(options: any, url: string) {
+        super();
+
+        this._requester = new Requester(options);
+        this._baseUrl = url;
+    }
+
+    public async fetch(url: string): Promise<Buffer | null> {
+        if (!url) {
+            const promise = Promise.resolve(null);
+
+            (promise as any).abort = () => { };
+
+            return await promise;
+        }
+
+        const urlAsUrl = new URL(url);
+        let resourceUrl: string = urlAsUrl.href;
+
+        if (!urlAsUrl.protocol) {
+            resourceUrl = new URL(resourceUrl, this._baseUrl).href;
+        }
+
+        let abort: Function;
+
+        const promise = new Promise<Buffer>(async (resolve, reject) => {
+            abort = reject;
+
+            try {
+                const resourceNetworkData: NetworkData = await this._requester.get(resourceUrl);
+
+                debug(`resource ${resourceUrl} fetched`);
+
+                return resolve(resourceNetworkData.response.body.rawContent);
+            } catch (err) {
+                return reject(err);
+            }
+        });
+
+        /*
+         * When jsdom is close (because of an exception) it will try to close
+         * all the pending connections calling to `abort`.
+         */
+        /* istanbul ignore next */
+        (promise as any).abort = () => {
+            const error = new Error('request canceled by user');
+
+            abort(error);
+        };
+
+        return promise;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/packages/connector-jsdom/src/evaluate-runner.ts b/packages/connector-jsdom/src/evaluate-runner.ts
index d9cea53d300..f10e8835f73 100644
--- a/packages/connector-jsdom/src/evaluate-runner.ts
+++ b/packages/connector-jsdom/src/evaluate-runner.ts
@@ -4,13 +4,24 @@ import { JSDOM, VirtualConsole } from 'jsdom';
 import * as jsdomutils from 'jsdom/lib/jsdom/living/generated/utils';
 
 import { debug as d } from '@hint/utils';
+import { Requester } from '@hint/utils-connector-tools';
 
 import { beforeParse } from './before-parse';
+import { NetworkData } from 'hint';
+import { EvaluateCustomResourceLoader } from './evaluate-resource-loader';
 
 const debug: debug.IDebugger = d(__filename);
 
-const run = async (data: { source: string }) => {
-    const { source } = data;
+const run = async (data: { options: any; source: string }) => {
+    const { options = {}, source } = data;
+    const requesterOptions = {
+        rejectUnauthorized: !options.ignoreHTTPSErrors,
+        strictSSL: !options.ignoreHTTPSErrors,
+        ...options.requestOptions
+    };
+
+    const requester = new Requester(requesterOptions);
+
     const result = {
         error: null as Error | null,
         evaluate: 'result'
@@ -28,11 +39,31 @@ const run = async (data: { source: string }) => {
         debug(err);
     });
 
-    const jsdom = await JSDOM.fromURL(url, {
-        beforeParse: beforeParse(url),
+    let html = '';
+    let networkData: NetworkData;
+
+    try {
+        /*
+         * we need to request the HTML separately instead of
+         * just using `JSDOM.fromURL` in order to respect
+         * user options to ignore HTTPS errors.
+         */
+        networkData = await requester.get(url);
+
+        html = networkData.response.body.content;
+    } catch (error) {
+        process.send!({ error });
+
+        return;
+    }
+    const finalUrl = networkData.response.url;
+
+    const jsdom = new JSDOM(html, {
+        beforeParse: beforeParse(finalUrl),
         pretendToBeVisual: true,
-        resources: 'usable',
+        resources: new EvaluateCustomResourceLoader(requesterOptions, finalUrl),
         runScripts: 'dangerously',
+        url: finalUrl,
         virtualConsole
     });