diff --git a/cmd/brew-aspell-dictionaries.rb b/cmd/brew-aspell-dictionaries.rb
index 26056073329..4fe7f175b51 100755
--- a/cmd/brew-aspell-dictionaries.rb
+++ b/cmd/brew-aspell-dictionaries.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ dict_mirror = "https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/aspell/dict"
 
 languages   = {}
 
-open("#{dict_url}/0index.html") do |content|
+URI.parse("#{dict_url}/0index.html").open do |content|
   content.each_line do |line|
     break if %r{^</table} =~ line
     next unless /^<tr><td><a/ =~ line