Https Protocol error when following along

In the node.js course i'm on the step where we require http, this is my code:

var http = require("http"); var username = "aaronhill3";

function printMessage(username, badgecount, points) { var message = username + " has " + badgecount + " total badge(s) and " + points + " points " ; console.log(message); }

//Connect to API Url var request = http.get("https://teamtreehouse.com/" + username + ".json", function(response){ console.dir(response); //Read the data from the response //parse data //print the data out

});

When I run the code I get a protocol error:

http.js:1845
throw new Error('Protocol:' + options.protocol + ' not supported.');
^
Error: Protocol:https: not supported.
at Object.exports.request (http.js:1845:11)
at Object.exports.get (http.js:1852:21)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/treehouse/workspace/app.js:13:20)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
at startup (node.js:119:16)
at node.js:929:3

I triple checked my code and I still have no idea why this is happening, any help would be greatly appreciated.