diff --git a/uclassify.php b/uclassify.php
index d408c77..d19047c 100644
--- a/uclassify.php
+++ b/uclassify.php
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 class uClassify {
 	
 	// private properties
-	private $baseUrl = 'http://uclassify.com/browse/';
+	private $baseUrl = 'https://uclassify.com/browse/';
 	private $provider = "uClassify";
 	private $readkey = '***YOUR_READ_KEY***';
 	private $removeHTML = 1;
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ public function classifyUrl($url) {
 	public function classifyText($txt) {
 		// assemble the query string
 		$qs = $this->baseUrl.$this->provider."/".ucwords($this->classifier).'/ClassifyText/?readkey='.urlencode($this->readkey).
-					'&text='.urlencode($url).'&removeHtml='.$this->removeHTML.'&output='.$this->encoding."&version=".$this->version;
+					'&text='.urlencode($txt).'&removeHtml='.$this->removeHTML.'&output='.$this->encoding."&version=".$this->version;
 	
 		// instantiate cUrl
 		$curl = curl_init($qs);
@@ -147,4 +147,4 @@ public function classifyText($txt) {
 		return $data;
 	}
 }
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>