diff --git a/t/Root/RootIO.t b/t/Root/RootIO.t
index d179da8282..03b57841ed 100644
--- a/t/Root/RootIO.t
+++ b/t/Root/RootIO.t
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ BEGIN {
     use_ok 'Bio::Root::IO';
 }
 
-my $TESTURL = 'http://www.google.com/index.html';
+my $TESTURL = 'https://bioperl.org';
 
 my $rio;