diff --git a/doc/common/app_support.xml b/doc/common/app_support.xml
index 798d4205bc..2ac50f79b8 100644
--- a/doc/common/app_support.xml
+++ b/doc/common/app_support.xml
@@ -331,8 +331,8 @@
             Freenode network. You can hang out, ask questions, or get immediate
             feedback for urgent and pressing issues. To install an IRC client or
             use a browser-based client, go to <link
-                xlink:href="http://webchat.freenode.net"
-                >http://webchat.freenode.net/</link>. You can also use Colloquy
+                xlink:href="https://webchat.freenode.net"
+                >https://webchat.freenode.net/</link>. You can also use Colloquy
             (Mac OS X, <link xlink:href="http://colloquy.info/"
                 >http://colloquy.info/</link>), mIRC (Windows, <link
                 xlink:href="http://www.mirc.com/">http://www.mirc.com/</link>),
diff --git a/doc/user-guides/source/common/app_support.rst b/doc/user-guides/source/common/app_support.rst
index 360a24fb79..9fc884575e 100644
--- a/doc/user-guides/source/common/app_support.rst
+++ b/doc/user-guides/source/common/app_support.rst
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ The OpenStack community lives in the #openstack IRC channel on the
 Freenode network. You can hang out, ask questions, or get immediate
 feedback for urgent and pressing issues. To install an IRC client or use
 a browser-based client, go to
-`http://webchat.freenode.net/ <http://webchat.freenode.net>`__. You can
+`https://webchat.freenode.net/ <https://webchat.freenode.net>`__. You can
 also use Colloquy (Mac OS X, http://colloquy.info/), mIRC (Windows,
 http://www.mirc.com/), or XChat (Linux). When you are in the IRC channel
 and want to share code or command output, the generally accepted method