diff --git a/docs/sources/articles/https.md b/docs/sources/articles/https.md
index 925ba8f8f2..cf1ccaef6e 100644
--- a/docs/sources/articles/https.md
+++ b/docs/sources/articles/https.md
@@ -167,4 +167,7 @@ location using the environment variable `DOCKER_CERT_PATH`.
 To use `curl` to make test API requests, you need to use three extra command line
 flags:
 
-    $ curl --insecure --cert ~/.docker/cert.pem --key ~/.docker/key.pem https://boot2docker:2376/images/json`
+    $ curl https://boot2docker:2376/images/json \
+      --cert ~/.docker/cert.pem \
+      --key ~/.docker/key.pem \
+      --cacert ~/.docker/ca.pem