diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
index 7554081e8b..42e6de216e 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
@@ -61,4 +61,4 @@ KERNEL_IMAGETYPES ??= "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}"
 # fetch from the network (and warn you if not). To disable the test set
 # the variable to be empty.
 # Git example url: git://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-firewall-test;protocol=git;rev=master;branch=master
-CONNECTIVITY_CHECK_URIS ?= "https://yoctoproject.org/connectivity.html"
+CONNECTIVITY_CHECK_URIS ?= "https://www.yoctoproject.org/connectivity.html"
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/buildtools-cases/https.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/buildtools-cases/https.py
index 4525e3d758..98f27e5994 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/buildtools-cases/https.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/sdk/buildtools-cases/https.py
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ class HTTPTests(OESDKTestCase):
     """
 
     def test_wget(self):
-        self._run('env -i wget --debug --output-document /dev/null https://yoctoproject.org/connectivity.html')
+        self._run('env -i wget --debug --output-document /dev/null https://www.yoctoproject.org/connectivity.html')
 
     def test_python(self):
         # urlopen() returns a file-like object on success and throws an exception otherwise
-        self._run('python3 -c \'import urllib.request; urllib.request.urlopen("https://yoctoproject.org/connectivity.html")\'')
+        self._run('python3 -c \'import urllib.request; urllib.request.urlopen("https://www.yoctoproject.org/connectivity.html")\'')