diff --git a/bootstrap.py b/bootstrap.py
index c62914cb1b..bf0ad07723 100755
--- a/bootstrap.py
+++ b/bootstrap.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from __future__ import print_function
 import os, sys, stat, hashlib, subprocess
 
 WAFRELEASE = "waf-1.8.4"
-WAFURLS    = ["http://ftp.waf.io/pub/release/" + WAFRELEASE,
+WAFURLS    = ["https://waf.io/" + WAFRELEASE,
               "http://www.freehackers.org/~tnagy/release/" + WAFRELEASE]
 SHA256HASH = "f02035fa5d8814f33f19b2b20d43822ddef6bb39b955ca196c2a247a1f9ffaa8"