Semantic-ui trying to access google api url in local file system

Just deployed a NodeJS App that'll use Semantic-UI on Elastic Beanstalk (Amazon) and was receiving a 404 on the following CSS line: @import 'http://ift.tt/1cXTrbC';

Apparently, the system was trying to access: /components/semantic-ui/dist/http://ift.tt/1cXTrbC

We fixed it by putting in @import url('URL');

However it seems strange that the system tries to look in the internal file system on such an @import - does anyone have a clue why this is?