diff --git a/lib/request/connect.py b/lib/request/connect.py
index a3a4f343c..db756831c 100644
--- a/lib/request/connect.py
+++ b/lib/request/connect.py
@@ -509,11 +509,13 @@ class Connect(object):
                 ws_proxy_port = None
                 ws_proxy_host = None
                 ws_proxy_auth = None
+                ws_proxy_scheme = None
                 
                 if conf.proxy:
                     ws_proxy_uri = _urllib.parse.urlsplit(conf.proxy)
                     ws_proxy_port = ws_proxy_uri.port
                     ws_proxy_host = ws_proxy_uri.netloc.split(":")[0]
+                    ws_proxy_scheme = ws_proxy_uri.scheme
 
                 if conf.proxyCred:
                     ws_proxy_auth = conf.proxyCred.split(":")
@@ -522,7 +524,7 @@ class Connect(object):
                 ws.settimeout(WEBSOCKET_INITIAL_TIMEOUT if kb.webSocketRecvCount is None else timeout)
                 ws.connect(url, header=("%s: %s" % _ for _ in headers.items() if _[0] not in ("Host",)), cookie=cookie, 
                             http_proxy_host=ws_proxy_host, http_proxy_port=ws_proxy_port, 
-                            http_proxy_auth=ws_proxy_auth)  # WebSocket will add Host field of headers automatically
+                            http_proxy_auth=ws_proxy_auth, proxy_type=ws_proxy_scheme)  # WebSocket will add Host field of headers automatically
                 ws.send(urldecode(post or ""))
 
                 _page = []