diff --git a/lib/node-http-proxy/proxy-table.js b/lib/node-http-proxy/proxy-table.js
index d5ec7fd..4841c8d 100644
--- a/lib/node-http-proxy/proxy-table.js
+++ b/lib/node-http-proxy/proxy-table.js
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ var ProxyTable = exports.ProxyTable = function (options) {
   events.EventEmitter.call(this);
 
   this.silent       = options.silent || options.silent !== true;
+  this.target       = options.target || {};
   this.hostnameOnly = options.hostnameOnly === true;
 
   if (typeof options.router === 'object') {
@@ -91,19 +92,62 @@ ProxyTable.prototype.setRoutes = function (router) {
     throw new Error('Cannot update ProxyTable routes without router.');
   }
 
+  var self = this;
   this.router = router;
 
   if (this.hostnameOnly === false) {
-    var self = this;
     this.routes = [];
 
     Object.keys(router).forEach(function (path) {
-      var route = new RegExp('^' + path, 'i');
+      if (!/http[s]?/.test(router[path])) {
+        router[path] = (self.target.https ? 'https://' : 'http://')
+          + router[path];
+      }
 
+      var target = url.parse(router[path]),
+          defaultPort = self.target.https ? 443 : 80;
+
+      //
+      // Setup a robust lookup table for the route:
+      //
+      //    {
+      //      source: {
+      //        regexp: /^foo.com/i,
+      //        sref: 'foo.com',
+      //        url: {
+      //          protocol: 'http:',
+      //          slashes: true,
+      //          host: 'foo.com',
+      //          hostname: 'foo.com',
+      //          href: 'http://foo.com/',
+      //          pathname: '/',
+      //          path: '/'
+      //        }
+      //    },
+      //    {
+      //      target: {
+      //        sref: '127.0.0.1:8000/',
+      //        url: {
+      //          protocol: 'http:',
+      //          slashes: true,
+      //          host: '127.0.0.1:8000',
+      //          hostname: '127.0.0.1',
+      //          href: 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/',
+      //          pathname: '/',
+      //          path: '/'
+      //        }
+      //    },
+      //
       self.routes.push({
-        route: route,
-        target: router[path],
-        path: path
+        source: {
+          regexp: new RegExp('^' + path, 'i'),
+          sref: path,
+          url: url.parse('http://' + path)
+        },
+        target: {
+          sref: target.hostname + ':' + (target.port || defaultPort) + target.path,
+          url: target
+        }
       });
     });
   }
@@ -137,22 +181,30 @@ ProxyTable.prototype.getProxyLocation = function (req) {
     target += req.url;
     for (var i in this.routes) {
       var route = this.routes[i];
-      if (target.match(route.route)) {
-        var requrl = url.parse(req.url);
-        //add the 'http://'' to get around a url.parse bug, it won't actually be used.
-        var targeturl = url.parse('http://'+route.target);
-        var pathurl = url.parse('http://'+route.path);
+      if (target.match(route.source.regexp)) {
+        //
+        // Attempt to perform any path replacement for differences
+        // between the source path and the target path. This replaces the
+        // path's part of the URL to the target's part of the URL.
+        //
+        // 1. Parse the request URL
+        // 2. Replace any portions of the source path with the target path
+        // 3. Set the request URL to the formatted URL with replacements.
+        //
+        var parsed = url.parse(req.url);
 
-        //This replaces the path's part of the URL to the target's part of the URL.
-        requrl.pathname = requrl.pathname.replace(pathurl.pathname, targeturl.pathname);
-        req.url = url.format(requrl);
+        parsed.pathname = parsed.pathname.replace(
+          route.source.url.pathname,
+          route.target.url.pathname
+        );
 
-        var host = targeturl.hostname,
-            port = targeturl.port || 80;
+        req.url = url.format(parsed);
 
         return {
-          port: port,
-          host: host
+          protocol: route.target.url.protocol.replace(':', ''),
+          host: route.target.url.hostname,
+          port: route.target.url.port
+            || (this.target.https ? 443 : 80)
         };
       }
     }
diff --git a/lib/node-http-proxy/routing-proxy.js b/lib/node-http-proxy/routing-proxy.js
index b769246..0f87be4 100644
--- a/lib/node-http-proxy/routing-proxy.js
+++ b/lib/node-http-proxy/routing-proxy.js
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ var RoutingProxy = exports.RoutingProxy = function (options) {
   // Setup other default options to be used for instances of
   // `HttpProxy` created by this `RoutingProxy` instance.
   //
-  this.source  = options.source       || { host: 'localhost', port: 8000 };
-  this.https   = this.source.https    || options.https;
+  this.source  = options.source    || { host: 'localhost', port: 8000 };
+  this.https   = this.source.https || options.https;
   this.enable  = options.enable;
   this.forward = options.forward;
 
@@ -88,8 +88,7 @@ RoutingProxy.prototype.add = function (options) {
   options.target.host  = options.target.host  || options.host;
   options.target.port  = options.target.port  || options.port;
   options.target.https = this.target && this.target.https ||
-                         options.target && options.target.https ||
-                         options.https;
+                         options.target && options.target.https;
 
   //
   // Setup options to pass-thru to the new `HttpProxy` instance
@@ -102,12 +101,15 @@ RoutingProxy.prototype.add = function (options) {
   });
 
   this.proxies[key] = new HttpProxy(options);
+
   if (this.listeners('proxyError').length > 0) {
     this.proxies[key].on('proxyError', this.emit.bind(this, 'proxyError'));
   }
+
   if (this.listeners('webSocketProxyError').length > 0) {
     this.proxies[key].on('webSocketProxyError', this.emit.bind(this, 'webSocketProxyError'));
   }
+
   this.proxies[key].on('start', this.emit.bind(this, 'start'));
   this.proxies[key].on('forward', this.emit.bind(this, 'forward'));
   this.proxies[key].on('end', this.emit.bind(this, 'end'));
@@ -200,7 +202,13 @@ RoutingProxy.prototype.proxyRequest = function (req, res, options) {
   }
 
   var key = this._getKey(options),
-    proxy;
+      proxy;
+
+  if ((this.target && this.target.https)
+    || (location && location.protocol === 'https')) {
+    options.target = options.target || {};
+    options.target.https = true;
+  }
 
   if (!this.proxies[key]) {
     this.add(options);