From 6259b5dd3bf52ff0d008a1b19de489389e60d297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas Garron <lgarron@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:06:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add a --default-scheme argument.

---
 httpie/cli.py   | 10 ++++++++++
 httpie/input.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/httpie/cli.py b/httpie/cli.py
index 2b05a883..47ee4c54 100644
--- a/httpie/cli.py
+++ b/httpie/cli.py
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ positional.add_argument(
     metavar='URL',
     help="""
     The scheme defaults to 'http://' if the URL does not include one.
+    (You can override this with: --default-scheme https)
 
     You can also use a shorthand for localhost
 
@@ -558,6 +559,15 @@ troubleshooting.add_argument(
 
     """
 )
+troubleshooting.add_argument(
+    '--default-scheme',
+    choices=["http", "https"],
+    default="http",
+    help="""
+    Default scheme to use if not specified in the URL.
+
+    """
+)
 troubleshooting.add_argument(
     '--debug',
     action='store_true',
diff --git a/httpie/input.py b/httpie/input.py
index da3cc525..ecddc5a4 100644
--- a/httpie/input.py
+++ b/httpie/input.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ class Parser(ArgumentParser):
         if not self.args.ignore_stdin and not env.stdin_isatty:
             self._body_from_file(self.env.stdin)
         if not URL_SCHEME_RE.match(self.args.url):
-            scheme = HTTP
+            scheme = self.args.default_scheme + "://"
 
             # See if we're using curl style shorthand for localhost (:3000/foo)
             shorthand = re.match(r'^:(?!:)(\d*)(/?.*)$', self.args.url)