diff --git a/hxt.cabal b/hxt.cabal
--- a/hxt.cabal
+++ b/hxt.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 -- arch-tag: Haskell XML Toolbox main description file
 Name:           hxt
-Version:        9.3.1.2
+Version:        9.3.1.3
 Synopsis:       A collection of tools for processing XML with Haskell.
 Description:    The Haskell XML Toolbox bases on the ideas of HaXml and HXML,
                 but introduces a more general approach for processing XML with Haskell.
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
                 hxt-curl, hxt-tagsoup, hxt-relaxng, hxt-xpath, hxt-xslt, hxt-regex-xmlschema contain the extensions.
                 hxt-unicode contains encoding and decoding functions,
                 hxt-charproperties char properties for unicode and XML.
+                Changes from 9.3.1.2: https as protocol added
                 .
                 Changes from 9.3.1.1: new parser xreadDoc
                 .
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@
 Stability:      Stable
 Category:       XML
 Homepage:       http://www.fh-wedel.de/~si/HXmlToolbox/index.html
-Copyright:      Copyright (c) 2005-2012 Uwe Schmidt
+Copyright:      Copyright (c) 2005-2014 Uwe Schmidt
 Build-type:     Simple
 Cabal-version:  >=1.8
 
diff --git a/src/Text/XML/HXT/Arrow/DocumentInput.hs b/src/Text/XML/HXT/Arrow/DocumentInput.hs
--- a/src/Text/XML/HXT/Arrow/DocumentInput.hs
+++ b/src/Text/XML/HXT/Arrow/DocumentInput.hs
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 protocolHandlers
     = [ ("file",        getFileContents)
       , ("http",        getHttpContents)
+      , ("https",       getHttpContents)
       , ("stdin",       getStdinContents)
       ]