diff --git a/src/applications/notification/client/PhabricatorNotificationClient.php b/src/applications/notification/client/PhabricatorNotificationClient.php
index 85ff2937be..b3367dd54c 100644
--- a/src/applications/notification/client/PhabricatorNotificationClient.php
+++ b/src/applications/notification/client/PhabricatorNotificationClient.php
@@ -1,58 +1,63 @@
 <?php
 
 final class PhabricatorNotificationClient {
 
   const EXPECT_VERSION = 7;
 
   public static function getServerStatus() {
     $uri = PhabricatorEnv::getEnvConfig('notification.server-uri');
     $uri = id(new PhutilURI($uri))
       ->setPath('/status/')
       ->setQueryParam('instance', self::getInstance());
 
+    // We always use HTTP to connect to the server itself: it's simpler and
+    // there's no meaningful security benefit to securing this link today.
+    // Force the protocol to HTTP in case users have set it to something else.
+    $uri->setProtocol('http');
+
     list($body) = id(new HTTPSFuture($uri))
       ->setTimeout(3)
       ->resolvex();
 
     $status = phutil_json_decode($body);
     if (!is_array($status)) {
       throw new Exception(
         pht(
           'Expected JSON response from notification server, received: %s',
           $body));
     }
 
     return $status;
   }
 
   public static function tryToPostMessage(array $data) {
     if (!PhabricatorEnv::getEnvConfig('notification.enabled')) {
       return;
     }
 
     try {
       self::postMessage($data);
     } catch (Exception $ex) {
       // Just ignore any issues here.
       phlog($ex);
     }
   }
 
   private static function postMessage(array $data) {
     $server_uri = PhabricatorEnv::getEnvConfig('notification.server-uri');
     $server_uri = id(new PhutilURI($server_uri))
       ->setPath('/')
       ->setQueryParam('instance', self::getInstance());
 
     id(new HTTPSFuture($server_uri, json_encode($data)))
       ->setMethod('POST')
       ->setTimeout(1)
       ->resolvex();
   }
 
   private static function getInstance() {
     $client_uri = PhabricatorEnv::getEnvConfig('notification.client-uri');
     return id(new PhutilURI($client_uri))->getPath();
   }
 
 }