diff --git a/examples/http_server.py b/examples/http_server.py
index e5c87a37..774edefe 100644
--- a/examples/http_server.py
+++ b/examples/http_server.py
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
 
 import webview
 
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    webview.create_window('My first HTML5 application', 'assets/index.html')
     # HTTP server is started automatically for local relative paths
+    webview.create_window('My first HTML5 application', 'assets/index.html')
+
+    # Server certificate is self signed so we need to ignore SSL errors
+    webview.settings['IGNORE_SSL_ERRORS'] = True
     webview.start(ssl=True)