diff --git a/examples/applications/plot_face_recognition.py b/examples/applications/plot_face_recognition.py
index 2d17a9f7193435ae3ea8a0005ca07597a9e7ff73..48a1a5f6461b7934249ad0872802bd587c61b380 100644
--- a/examples/applications/plot_face_recognition.py
+++ b/examples/applications/plot_face_recognition.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ from scikits.learn.svm import SVC
 ################################################################################
 # Download the data, if not already on disk
 
-url = "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5743203/data/lfw_preprocessed.tar.gz"
+url = "https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/scikit-learn/data/lfw_preprocessed.tar.gz"
 archive_name = "lfw_preprocessed.tar.gz"
 folder_name = "lfw_preprocessed"