diff --git a/bugwarrior/docs/services/gitlab.rst b/bugwarrior/docs/services/gitlab.rst
index 94537a6af..653bd154e 100644
--- a/bugwarrior/docs/services/gitlab.rst
+++ b/bugwarrior/docs/services/gitlab.rst
@@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ by adding the following configuration option::
 
     gitlab.filter_merge_requests = True
 
+Use HTTP
+++++++++
+
+If your Gitlab instance is only available over HTTP, set::
+
+    gitlab.use_https = False
+
+
 Provided UDA Fields
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/bugwarrior/services/gitlab.py b/bugwarrior/services/gitlab.py
index 513094f78..709af4f3d 100644
--- a/bugwarrior/services/gitlab.py
+++ b/bugwarrior/services/gitlab.py
@@ -198,6 +198,11 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kw):
             )
         self.auth = (host, token)
 
+        if self.config_get_default('use_https', default=True, to_type=asbool):
+            self.scheme = 'https'
+        else:
+            self.scheme = 'http'
+
         self.exclude_repos = []
         if self.config_get_default('exclude_repos', None):
             self.exclude_repos = [
@@ -252,7 +257,7 @@ def filter_repos(self, repo):
         return True
 
     def _get_notes(self, rid, issue_type, issueid):
-        tmpl = 'https://{host}/api/v3/projects/%d/%s/%d/notes' % (rid, issue_type, issueid)
+        tmpl = '{scheme}://{host}/api/v3/projects/%d/%s/%d/notes' % (rid, issue_type, issueid)
         return self._fetch_paged(tmpl)
 
     def annotations(self, repo, url, issue_type, issue, issue_obj):
@@ -266,7 +271,7 @@ def annotations(self, repo, url, issue_type, issue, issue_obj):
         )
 
     def _fetch(self, tmpl, **kwargs):
-        url = tmpl.format(host=self.auth[0])
+        url = tmpl.format(scheme=self.scheme, host=self.auth[0])
         headers = {'PRIVATE-TOKEN': self.auth[1]}
 
         response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, **kwargs)
@@ -312,7 +317,7 @@ def _fetch_paged(self, tmpl):
         return full
 
     def get_repo_issues(self, rid):
-        tmpl = 'https://{host}/api/v3/projects/%d/issues' % rid
+        tmpl = '{scheme}://{host}/api/v3/projects/%d/issues' % rid
         issues = {}
         for issue in self._fetch_paged(tmpl):
             if issue['state'] != 'opened':
@@ -321,7 +326,7 @@ def get_repo_issues(self, rid):
         return issues
 
     def get_repo_merge_requests(self, rid):
-        tmpl = 'https://{host}/api/v3/projects/%d/merge_requests' % rid
+        tmpl = '{scheme}://{host}/api/v3/projects/%d/merge_requests' % rid
         issues = {}
         for issue in self._fetch_paged(tmpl):
             if issue['state'] != 'opened':
@@ -330,7 +335,7 @@ def get_repo_merge_requests(self, rid):
         return issues
 
     def issues(self):
-        tmpl = 'https://{host}/api/v3/projects'
+        tmpl = '{scheme}://{host}/api/v3/projects'
         all_repos = self._fetch_paged(tmpl)
         repos = filter(self.filter_repos, all_repos)