diff --git a/inc/Readability.php b/inc/Readability.php
index 52a37d505..c50bf2efa 100755
--- a/inc/Readability.php
+++ b/inc/Readability.php
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ class Readability
 	public $debug = false;
 	protected $body = null; // 
 	protected $bodyCache = null; // Cache the body HTML in case we need to re-use it later
-	protected $flags = FLAG_CLEAN_CONDITIONALLY; // 1 | 2 | 4;   // Start with all flags set.
+	protected $flags = self::FLAG_CLEAN_CONDITIONALLY; // 1 | 2 | 4;   // Start with all flags set.
 	protected $success = false; // indicates whether we were able to extract or not
 	
 	/**
diff --git a/readityourself.php b/readityourself.php
index 2071b4175..c59bb9d12 100755
--- a/readityourself.php
+++ b/readityourself.php
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ require_once dirname(__FILE__).'/inc/rain.tpl.class.php';
 
 
 function url(){
-  $protocol = ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] != "off") ? "https" : "http";
+  $protocol = "http";
+  if(isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']))
+    if($_SERVER['HTTPS'] != "off")
+      $protocol = "https";
+  
   return $protocol . "://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
 }