diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3b25892..68ba4c4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def read_text_file(fname):
     description="a python log handler that pushes logs into AWS sqs",
     license=read_text_file('LICENSE'),
     keywords="zillow",
-    url="http://github.com/zillow/python-sqs-logging-handler",
+    url="https://github.com/zillow/python-sqs-logging-handler",
     packages=find_packages(),
     long_description=read_text_file('README.md'),
     classifiers=[
diff --git a/sqs_log_handler/sqsloghandler.py b/sqs_log_handler/sqsloghandler.py
index 737bd8f..ff6aaed 100644
--- a/sqs_log_handler/sqsloghandler.py
+++ b/sqs_log_handler/sqsloghandler.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ def __init__(self,
         Sends log messages to SQS so downstream processors can consume
         (e.g. push the log messages to Splunk).
         :param queue: SQS queue name.
-        :param aws_key_id: aws key id. Explicit credential parameters is
+        :param aws_key_id: aws key id. Explicit credential parameters are
         not needed when running with EC2 role-based authentication.
         :param secret_key: secret key associated with the key id.
         """