diff --git a/lib/core/common.py b/lib/core/common.py
index dd6af64e1..e0762ac0e 100644
--- a/lib/core/common.py
+++ b/lib/core/common.py
@@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ def parseTargetUrl():
     __urlSplit = urlparse.urlsplit(conf.url)
     __hostnamePort = __urlSplit[1].split(":")
 
-    conf.scheme = __urlSplit[0].strip()
+    conf.scheme = __urlSplit[0].strip() if not conf.forceSSL else "https"
     conf.path = __urlSplit[2].strip()
     conf.hostname = __hostnamePort[0].strip()
 
diff --git a/lib/core/optiondict.py b/lib/core/optiondict.py
index c02453e76..bd0e602e8 100644
--- a/lib/core/optiondict.py
+++ b/lib/core/optiondict.py
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ optDict = {
                                "agent":             "string",
                                "randomAgent":       "boolean",
                                "rParam":            "string",
+                               "forceSSL":          "boolean",
                                "host":              "string",
                                "referer":           "string",
                                "headers":           "string",
diff --git a/lib/parse/cmdline.py b/lib/parse/cmdline.py
index 4b7ed040b..a735e6bad 100644
--- a/lib/parse/cmdline.py
+++ b/lib/parse/cmdline.py
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ def cmdLineParser():
         request.add_option("--randomize", dest="rParam",
                            help="Randomly change value for given parameter(s)")
 
+        request.add_option("--force-ssl", dest="forceSSL",
+                           action="store_true",
+                           help="Force usage of SSL/HTTPS requests")
+
         request.add_option("--host", dest="host",
                            help="HTTP Host header")
 
diff --git a/sqlmap.conf b/sqlmap.conf
index 28bd5386f..2cf113445 100644
--- a/sqlmap.conf
+++ b/sqlmap.conf
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ referer =
 # Randomly change value for the given parameter
 rParam = 
 
+# Force usage of SSL/HTTPS requests
+# Valid: True or False
+forceSSL = False
+
 # Extra HTTP headers
 headers = Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
  Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5