diff --git a/lib/travis/api/app/endpoint/authorization.rb b/lib/travis/api/app/endpoint/authorization.rb
index 6e2a7aa5..65ed8573 100644
--- a/lib/travis/api/app/endpoint/authorization.rb
+++ b/lib/travis/api/app/endpoint/authorization.rb
@@ -276,8 +276,8 @@ class Travis::Api::App
           user
         end
 
-        def get_token(endoint, values)
-          response   = Faraday.new(ssl: Travis.config.github.ssl).post(endoint, values)
+        def get_token(endpoint, values)
+          response   = Faraday.new(ssl: Travis.config.github.ssl).post(endpoint, values)
           parameters = Addressable::URI.form_unencode(response.body)
           token_info = parameters.assoc("access_token")
           halt 401, 'could not resolve github token' unless token_info
diff --git a/spec/unit/endpoint/authorization_spec.rb b/spec/unit/endpoint/authorization_spec.rb
index e2cc59d1..33c76e84 100644
--- a/spec/unit/endpoint/authorization_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/unit/endpoint/authorization_spec.rb
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ describe Travis::Api::App::Endpoint::Authorization do
         User::Oauth.instance_variable_set("@wanted_scopes", nil)
       end
 
+      # in endpoint/authorization.rb 271, get_token faraday raises the exception:
+      # hostname "foobar.com" does not match the server certificate
       it 'redirects to insufficient access page' do
         response = get '/auth/handshake?state=github-state&code=oauth-code'
         response.should redirect_to('https://travis-ci.org/insufficient_access')