diff --git a/basis/http/client/client-docs.factor b/basis/http/client/client-docs.factor
index a762d1a5ef..d4f277a7c3 100644
--- a/basis/http/client/client-docs.factor
+++ b/basis/http/client/client-docs.factor
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ ARTICLE: "http.client.errors" "HTTP client errors"
 ARTICLE: "http.client" "HTTP client"
 "The " { $vocab-link "http.client" } " vocabulary implements an HTTP and HTTPS client on top of " { $link "http" } "."
 $nl
+"For HTTPS support, you must load the " { $vocab-link "urls.secure" } " vocab first. If you don't load it, HTTPS will not load and images generated by " { $vocab-link "tools.deploy" } " will be smaller as a result."
+$nl
 "There are two primary usage patterns, data retrieval with GET requests and form submission with POST requests:"
 { $subsection "http.client.get" }
 { $subsection "http.client.post" }
diff --git a/basis/urls/secure/secure.factor b/basis/urls/secure/secure.factor
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d2fa55f7f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/basis/urls/secure/secure.factor
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+! Copyright (C) 2008 Slava Pestov.
+! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
+USING: urls urls.private io.sockets io.sockets.secure ;
+IN: urls.secure
+
+M: abstract-inet >secure-addr <secure> ;
diff --git a/basis/urls/urls.factor b/basis/urls/urls.factor
index 5cc8c9693b..30e8c68f9d 100644
--- a/basis/urls/urls.factor
+++ b/basis/urls/urls.factor
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
 USING: kernel ascii combinators combinators.short-circuit
 sequences splitting fry namespaces make assocs arrays strings
-io.sockets io.sockets.secure io.encodings.string
+io.sockets io.encodings.string
 io.encodings.utf8 math math.parser accessors parser
 strings.parser lexer prettyprint.backend hashtables present
 peg.ebnf urls.encoding ;
@@ -159,6 +159,12 @@ PRIVATE>
 : secure-protocol? ( protocol -- ? )
     "https" = ;
 
+<PRIVATE
+
+GENERIC: >secure-addr ( addrspec -- addrspec' )
+
+PRIVATE>
+
 : url-addr ( url -- addr )
     [
         [ host>> ]
@@ -166,7 +172,7 @@ PRIVATE>
         [ protocol>> protocol-port ]
         tri or <inet>
     ] [ protocol>> ] bi
-    secure-protocol? [ <secure> ] when ;
+    secure-protocol? [ >secure-addr ] when ;
 
 : ensure-port ( url -- url )
     dup protocol>> '[ _ protocol-port or ] change-port ;