laravel/laravel — pull request #2308 by captbrogers (2013-09-12 14:02:17+00:00)
Title: Force HTTPS for composer

A persistent problem when using composer is that it will silently switch to non-SSL when downloading JSON files from packagist.org resulting in a failure to open the stream. This request is after finding a fix here:

https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/1992#issuecomment-20869636