diff --git a/build.properties.default b/build.properties.default
index 5291659b78..11da534e32 100644
--- a/build.properties.default
+++ b/build.properties.default
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Maven2 Repository Locations (you can override these in "build.properties" to point to a local proxy, e.g. Nexus)
-artifact.remoteRepository.central:     http://repo1.maven.org/maven2
-artifact.remoteRepository.apache:      http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
+artifact.remoteRepository.central:     https://repo1.maven.org/maven2
+artifact.remoteRepository.apache:      https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
 
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 4dac1a4d6b..acd3b7adb7 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  ~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
  ~ with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
  ~
- ~    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ ~    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  ~
  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
  ~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
     <property name="maven-ant-tasks.version" value="2.1.3" />
     <property name="maven-ant-tasks.local" value="${user.home}/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/maven-ant-tasks"/>
     <property name="maven-ant-tasks.url"
-              value="http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-ant-tasks" />
+              value="https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/maven-ant-tasks" />
     <!-- details of how and which Maven repository we publish to -->
     <property name="maven.version" value="3.0.3" />
     <condition property="maven-repository-url" value="https://repository.apache.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2">
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
     <!-- skip flushing schema tables during tests -->
     <property name="cassandra.test.flush_local_schema_changes" value="false" />
 
-    <!-- http://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/ -->
+    <!-- https://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/ -->
     <property name="jacoco.export.dir" value="${build.dir}/jacoco/" />
     <property name="jacoco.partials.dir" value="${jacoco.export.dir}/partials" />
     <property name="jacoco.partialexecfile" value="${jacoco.partials.dir}/partial.exec" />
@@ -476,11 +476,11 @@
                     artifactId="cassandra-parent"
                     packaging="pom"
                     version="${version}"
-                    url="http://cassandra.apache.org"
+                    url="https://cassandra.apache.org"
                     name="Apache Cassandra"
                     inceptionYear="2009"
                     description="The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.">
-        <license name="The Apache Software License, Version 2.0" url="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt"/>
+        <license name="The Apache Software License, Version 2.0" url="https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt"/>
         <scm connection="${scm.connection}" developerConnection="${scm.developerConnection}" url="${scm.url}"/>
         <dependencyManagement>
           <dependency groupId="org.xerial.snappy" artifactId="snappy-java" version="1.1.2.6"/>
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@
 
       <artifact:pom id="all-pom"
                     artifactId="cassandra-all"
-                    url="http://cassandra.apache.org"
+                    url="https://cassandra.apache.org"
                     name="Apache Cassandra">
         <parent groupId="org.apache.cassandra"
                 artifactId="cassandra-parent"
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@
       <artifact:pom id="dist-pom"
                     artifactId="apache-cassandra"
                     packaging="pom"
-                    url="http://cassandra.apache.org"
+                    url="https://cassandra.apache.org"
                     name="Apache Cassandra">
         <parent groupId="org.apache.cassandra"
                 artifactId="cassandra-parent"