diff --git a/src/options.js b/src/options.js
index fbdc1e0c..0868979c 100644
--- a/src/options.js
+++ b/src/options.js
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ function getDefaultOpts (simple) {
       describe: 'Turn on/off GFM autolink style',
       type: 'boolean'
     },
+    httpsAutoLinks: {
+      defaultValue: false,
+      describe: 'Use \'https://\' for auto-generated links',
+      type: 'boolean'
+    },
     literalMidWordUnderscores: {
       defaultValue: false,
       describe: 'Parse midword underscores as literal underscores',
diff --git a/src/subParsers/makehtml/link.js b/src/subParsers/makehtml/link.js
index ff3e5503..b8bb240a 100644
--- a/src/subParsers/makehtml/link.js
+++ b/src/subParsers/makehtml/link.js
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ showdown.subParser('makehtml.link', function (text, options, globals) {
   let angleBracketsLinksRegex = /<(((?:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)[^'">\s]+)>/gi;
   text = text.replace(angleBracketsLinksRegex, function (wholeMatch, url, urlStart) {
     let text = url;
-    url = (urlStart === 'www.') ? 'http://' + url : url;
+    url = (urlStart === 'www.') ? (options.httpsAutoLinks ? 'https://' : 'http://') + url : url;
     return writeAnchorTag ('angleBrackets', angleBracketsLinksRegex, wholeMatch, text, null, url);
   });
 
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ showdown.subParser('makehtml.link', function (text, options, globals) {
 
       // we copy the treated url to the text variable
       let txt = url;
-      // finally, if it's a www shortcut, we prepend http
-      url = (urlPrefix === 'www.') ? 'http://' + url : url;
+      // finally, if it's a www shortcut, we prepend http(s)
+      url = (urlPrefix === 'www.') ? (options.httpsAutoLinks ? 'https://' : 'http://') + url : url;
 
       // url part is done so let's take care of text now
       // we need to escape the text (because of links such as www.example.com/foo__bar__baz)
diff --git a/test/functional/makehtml/cases/features/#806.https-auto-link.html b/test/functional/makehtml/cases/features/#806.https-auto-link.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7a14598d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/functional/makehtml/cases/features/#806.https-auto-link.html
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+<p><a href="https://www.foobar.com">www.foobar.com</a></p>
+<p>This is a link <a href="https://www.foobar.com">www.foobar.com</a></p>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/functional/makehtml/cases/features/#806.https-auto-link.md b/test/functional/makehtml/cases/features/#806.https-auto-link.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..42306f12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/functional/makehtml/cases/features/#806.https-auto-link.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+www.foobar.com
+
+This is a link <www.foobar.com>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/functional/makehtml/testsuite.features.js b/test/functional/makehtml/testsuite.features.js
index 5e8b18a0..567f25a4 100644
--- a/test/functional/makehtml/testsuite.features.js
+++ b/test/functional/makehtml/testsuite.features.js
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ describe('makeHtml() features testsuite', function () {
         converter = new showdown.Converter({simpleLineBreaks: true});
       } else if (testsuite[i].name === '#318.simpleLineBreaks-does-not-work-with-chinese-characters') {
         converter = new showdown.Converter({simpleLineBreaks: true});
+      } else if (testsuite[i].name === '#806.https-auto-link') {
+        converter = new showdown.Converter({simplifiedAutoLink: true, httpsAutoLinks: true});
       } else if (testsuite[i].name === 'simpleLineBreaks-handle-html-pre') {
         converter = new showdown.Converter({simpleLineBreaks: true});
       } else if (testsuite[i].name === 'excludeTrailingPunctuationFromURLs-option') {