diff --git a/src/libstore/builtins/fetchurl.cc b/src/libstore/builtins/fetchurl.cc
index b9dfeba2f..f33060c33 100644
--- a/src/libstore/builtins/fetchurl.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/builtins/fetchurl.cc
@@ -38,10 +38,7 @@ void builtinFetchurl(
 
         auto source = sinkToSource([&](Sink & sink) {
 
-            /* No need to do TLS verification, because we check the hash of
-               the result anyway. */
             FileTransferRequest request(url);
-            request.verifyTLS = false;
             request.decompress = false;
 
             auto decompressor = makeDecompressionSink(