diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index 4b15cb60709449525f4cfac607855e8ae395afb3..afa666659aa1cabc3eff8694e8dc80b2446ced62 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@ the default value for this setting see: https://boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllengt
 USER_AGENT
 ----------
 
-Default: ``"Scrapy/VERSION (+http://scrapy.org)"``
+Default: ``"Scrapy/VERSION (+https://scrapy.org)"``
 
 The default User-Agent to use when crawling, unless overridden.
 
diff --git a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
index 697314b7f6e41914a0fb3f0f31d051e9fcbd23f9..ead51147365e895d1783e0374cca202b9ca22159 100644
--- a/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/settings/default_settings.py
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ TEMPLATES_DIR = abspath(join(dirname(__file__), '..', 'templates'))
 
 URLLENGTH_LIMIT = 2083
 
-USER_AGENT = 'Scrapy/%s (+http://scrapy.org)' % import_module('scrapy').__version__
+USER_AGENT = 'Scrapy/%s (+https://scrapy.org)' % import_module('scrapy').__version__
 
 TELNETCONSOLE_ENABLED = 1
 TELNETCONSOLE_PORT = [6023, 6073]