diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
index 840515763..c395dbfa0 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial.rst
@@ -268,19 +268,19 @@ The shell also instantiates two selectors, one for HTML (in the ``hxs``
 variable) and one for XML (in the ``xxs`` variable) with this response. So let's
 try them::
 
-   In [1]: hxs.select('/html/head/title')
-   Out[1]: [<HtmlXPathSelector (title) xpath=/html/head/title>]
+   In [1]: hxs.select('//title')
+   Out[1]: [<HtmlXPathSelector (title) xpath=//title>]
 
-   In [2]: hxs.select('/html/head/title').extract()
+   In [2]: hxs.select('//title').extract()
    Out[2]: [u'<title>Open Directory - Computers: Programming: Languages: Python: Books</title>']
 
-   In [3]: hxs.select('/html/head/title/text()')
-   Out[3]: [<HtmlXPathSelector (text) xpath=/html/head/title/text()>]
+   In [3]: hxs.select('//title/text()')
+   Out[3]: [<HtmlXPathSelector (text) xpath=//title/text()>]
 
-   In [4]: hxs.select('/html/head/title/text()').extract()
+   In [4]: hxs.select('//title/text()').extract()
    Out[4]: [u'Open Directory - Computers: Programming: Languages: Python: Books']
 
-   In [5]: hxs.select('/html/head/title/text()').re('(\w+):')
+   In [5]: hxs.select('//title/text()').re('(\w+):')
    Out[5]: [u'Computers', u'Programming', u'Languages', u'Python']
 
 Extracting the data
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/images.py b/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/images.py
index c7333a542..aa0a7b0b4 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/images.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/images.py
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class S3ImagesStore(object):
 
     def _get_boto_bucket(self):
         from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
-        c = S3Connection(self.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, self.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
+        c = S3Connection(self.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, self.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, is_secure=False)
         return c.get_bucket(self.bucket, validate=False)
 
     def _get_boto_key(self, key):