If I feed url with http, such as this:
url
http
ffmpeg -i http://vjs.zencdn.net/v/oceans.mp4 videojs.mp4
It works perfectly. H
The correct answer to this question as of Sep 2015 is ./configure --enable-openssl and if you have ubuntu then make sure you sudo apt-get install libssl-dev.
./configure --enable-openssl
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev