[1.9.x] Fixed #25778 -- Updated docs links to use https when available.

Backport of 7aabd6238028f4bb78d0687bbccc97bcf634e28b from master

27 files changed, 85 insertions, 85 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
index 0b59989535..e477fd1ea4 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ RedirectView
         urlpatterns = [
             url(r'^counter/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', ArticleCounterRedirectView.as_view(), name='article-counter'),
             url(r'^details/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', ArticleDetail.as_view(), name='article-detail'),
-            url(r'^go-to-django/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='http://djangoproject.com'), name='go-to-django'),
+            url(r'^go-to-django/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='https://djangoproject.com'), name='go-to-django'),
         ]
 
     **Attributes**
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
index 0a8e692e45..79fb333bcc 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
@@ -1260,8 +1260,8 @@ subclass::
 
         class PersonAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
             def view_on_site(self, obj):
-                return 'http://example.com' + reverse('person-detail',
-                                                      kwargs={'slug': obj.slug})
+                return 'https://example.com' + reverse('person-detail',
+                                                       kwargs={'slug': obj.slug})
 
 Custom template options
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -1943,7 +1943,7 @@ files for the forms and/or formsets. If :setting:`DEBUG` is ``True`` it will
 return the uncompressed versions of the various JavaScript files, including
 ``jquery.js``; if not, it will return the 'minified' versions.
 
-.. _jQuery: http://jquery.com
+.. _jQuery: https://jquery.com
 
 .. _admin-custom-validation:
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/admin.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/admin.txt
index b91a2158f3..62f7a78b0f 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/admin.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/admin.txt
@@ -64,6 +64,6 @@ GeoDjango's admin site
 .. class:: OSMGeoAdmin
 
    A subclass of :class:`GeoModelAdmin` that uses a spherical mercator projection
-   with `OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/>`_ street data tiles.
+   with `OpenStreetMap <https://www.openstreetmap.org/>`_ street data tiles.
    See the :ref:`OSMGeoAdmin introduction <osmgeoadmin-intro>`
    in the tutorial for a usage example.
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/db-api.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/db-api.txt
index c9bbec037c..efb357bef3 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/db-api.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/db-api.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ MySQL Spatial Limitations
 MySQL's spatial extensions only support bounding box operations
 (what MySQL calls minimum bounding rectangles, or MBR).  Specifically,
 `MySQL does not conform to the OGC standard
-<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/spatial-relation-functions.html>`_:
+<https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/spatial-relation-functions.html>`_:
 
     Currently, MySQL does not implement these functions
     [``Contains``, ``Crosses``, ``Disjoint``, ``Intersects``, ``Overlaps``,
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ Aggregate                PostGIS  Oracle  SpatiaLite
 .. [#fnewkb] *See* `PostGIS EWKB, EWKT and Canonical Forms <http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/using_postgis_dbmanagement.html#EWKB_EWKT>`_, PostGIS documentation at Ch. 4.1.2.
 .. [#fngeojson] *See* Howard Butler, Martin Daly, Allan Doyle, Tim Schaub, & Christopher Schmidt, `The GeoJSON Format Specification <http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html>`_, Revision 1.0 (June 16, 2008).
 .. [#fndistsphere15] *See* `PostGIS documentation <http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/ST_Distance_Sphere.html>`_ on ``ST_distance_sphere``.
-.. [#fnmysqlidx] *See* `Creating Spatial Indexes <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/creating-spatial-indexes.html>`_
+.. [#fnmysqlidx] *See* `Creating Spatial Indexes <https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/creating-spatial-indexes.html>`_
    in the MySQL Reference Manual:
 
        For MyISAM tables, ``SPATIAL INDEX`` creates an R-tree index. For storage
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip.txt
index efe33ebef3..f46770e5ea 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip.txt
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ datasets in binary format (the CSV files will not work!).  These datasets may be
 you set :setting:`GEOIP_PATH` with in your settings.  See the example and
 reference below for more details.
 
-__ http://www.maxmind.com/app/c
-__ http://www.maxmind.com/app/country
-__ http://www.maxmind.com/app/city
-__ http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/
+__ https://www.maxmind.com/app/c
+__ https://www.maxmind.com/app/country
+__ https://www.maxmind.com/app/city
+__ https://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/
 
 Example
 =======
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip2.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip2.txt
index 4d014a70e1..3471e9a0f6 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip2.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoip2.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ in a directory corresponding to the :setting:`GEOIP_PATH` setting.
 Additionally, it is recommended to install the `libmaxminddb C library`__, so
 that ``geoip2`` can leverage the C library's faster speed.
 
-__ http://geoip2.readthedocs.org/
+__ https://geoip2.readthedocs.org/
 __ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/geoip2
 __ http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/
 __ https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoquerysets.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoquerysets.txt
index 7fe2fec2b9..b3a7178ebc 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoquerysets.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geoquerysets.txt
@@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ Keyword Argument       Description
                        details.
 =====================  =====================================================
 
-__ http://docs.oracle.com/html/B14255_01/sdo_intro.htm#sthref150
+__ https://docs.oracle.com/html/B14255_01/sdo_intro.htm#sthref150
 
 Example::
 
@@ -1392,6 +1392,6 @@ Example::
 
 .. rubric:: Footnotes
 .. [#fnde9im] *See* `OpenGIS Simple Feature Specification For SQL <http://www.opengis.org/docs/99-049.pdf>`_, at Ch. 2.1.13.2, p. 2-13 (The Dimensionally Extended Nine-Intersection Model).
-.. [#fnsdorelate] *See* `SDO_RELATE documentation <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14255/sdo_operat.htm#sthref845>`_, from Ch. 11 of the Oracle Spatial User's Guide and Manual.
+.. [#fnsdorelate] *See* `SDO_RELATE documentation <https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14255/sdo_operat.htm#sthref845>`_, from Ch. 11 of the Oracle Spatial User's Guide and Manual.
 .. [#fncovers] For an explanation of this routine, read `Quirks of the "Contains" Spatial Predicate <http://lin-ear-th-inking.blogspot.com/2007/06/subtleties-of-ogc-covers-spatial.html>`_ by Martin Davis (a PostGIS developer).
 .. [#fncontainsproperly] Refer to the PostGIS ``ST_ContainsProperly`` `documentation <http://postgis.net/docs/manual-1.5/ST_ContainsProperly.html>`_ for more details.
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
index c04c4b2864..d539b2cbb9 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/geos.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ implements the OpenGIS `Simple Features for SQL`__ spatial predicate functions
 and spatial operators. GEOS, now an OSGeo project, was initially developed and
 maintained by `Refractions Research`__ of Victoria, Canada.
 
-__ http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
+__ https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
 __ http://sourceforge.net/projects/jts-topo-suite/
 __ http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfs
 __ http://www.refractions.net/
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ In order to obtain a prepared geometry, just access the
 may be used with other ``GEOSGeometry`` objects.  An operation with a prepared
 geometry can be orders of magnitude faster -- the more complex the geometry
 that is prepared, the larger the speedup in the operation.  For more information,
-please consult the `GEOS wiki page on prepared geometries <http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/PreparedGeometry>`_.
+please consult the `GEOS wiki page on prepared geometries <https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/PreparedGeometry>`_.
 
 For example::
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt
index 9174c3e0bb..83fc438ba4 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/geolibs.txt
@@ -218,8 +218,8 @@ Configure, make and install::
 If you have any problems, please see the troubleshooting section below for
 suggestions and solutions.
 
-__ http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/
-__ http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GdalOgrInPython
+__ https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/
+__ https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GdalOgrInPython
 
 .. _gdaltrouble:
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/index.txt
index 821372dd31..f85ad2f080 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/index.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ SQLite              GEOS, GDAL, PROJ.4, SpatiaLite  3.6.+               Requires
 See also `this comparison matrix`__ on the OSGeo Wiki for
 PostgreSQL/PostGIS/GEOS/GDAL possible combinations.
 
-__ http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostgreSQLPostGIS
+__ https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostgreSQLPostGIS
 
 Installation
 ============
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ Summary::
 
         export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib:/opt/local/lib/postgresql93
 
-__ http://www.macports.org/
+__ https://www.macports.org/
 
 .. _windows:
 
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ may be unchecked safely.  After clicking next, the packages will be
 automatically downloaded and installed, after which you may exit the
 installer.
 
-.. _OSGeo4W installer: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/
+.. _OSGeo4W installer: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/
 
 Modify Windows environment
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/spatialite.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/spatialite.txt
index 80ab2b1712..7950c178db 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/spatialite.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install/spatialite.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ just skip this section.
 To install from sources, download the latest amalgamation source archive from
 the `SQLite download page`__, and extract::
 
-    $ wget http://sqlite.org/sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.23.1.tar.gz
+    $ wget https://sqlite.org/sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.23.1.tar.gz
     $ tar xzf sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.23.1.tar.gz
     $ cd sqlite-3.6.23.1
 
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ needs to be customized so that SQLite knows to build the R*Tree module::
     $ sudo make install
     $ cd ..
 
-__ http://www.sqlite.org/rtree.html
-__ http://www.sqlite.org/download.html
+__ https://www.sqlite.org/rtree.html
+__ https://www.sqlite.org/download.html
 
 .. _spatialitebuild:
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/model-api.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/model-api.txt
index ee96f3f0ab..fccbdce35f 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/model-api.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/model-api.txt
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ __ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesy
 __ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle
 __ http://www.spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/2796/
 __ http://spatialreference.org/
-__ http://web.archive.org/web/20080302095452/http://welcome.warnercnr.colostate.edu/class_info/nr502/lg3/datums_coordinates/spcs.html
+__ https://web.archive.org/web/20080302095452/http://welcome.warnercnr.colostate.edu/class_info/nr502/lg3/datums_coordinates/spcs.html
 
 ``spatial_index``
 -----------------
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt
index 215e8cc785..2247d5248e 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ basic apps`_ project. [#]_
 
 .. _OGC: http://www.opengeospatial.org/
 .. _world borders: http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php
-.. _GeoDjango basic apps: http://code.google.com/p/geodjango-basic-apps/
+.. _GeoDjango basic apps: https://code.google.com/p/geodjango-basic-apps/
 
 Setting Up
 ==========
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ may be edited by clicking on a polygon and dragging the vertexes to the desired
 position.
 
 .. _OpenLayers: http://openlayers.org/
-.. _Open Street Map: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
+.. _Open Street Map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/
 .. _Vector Map Level 0: http://earth-info.nga.mil/publications/vmap0.html
 .. _OSGeo: http://www.osgeo.org
 
@@ -773,6 +773,6 @@ option class in your ``admin.py`` file::
 .. [#] GeoDjango basic apps was written by Dane Springmeyer, Josh Livni, and
        Christopher Schmidt.
 .. [#] This point is the `University of Houston Law Center
-       <http://www.law.uh.edu/>`_.
+       <https://www.law.uh.edu/>`_.
 .. [#] Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., `OpenGIS Simple Feature Specification
        For SQL <http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfs>`_.
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
index 2703c1627a..a5582f834f 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/sitemaps.txt
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Sitemap class reference
 
         * Good: :file:`'/foo/bar/'`
         * Bad: :file:`'example.com/foo/bar/'`
-        * Bad: :file:`'http://example.com/foo/bar/'`
+        * Bad: :file:`'https://example.com/foo/bar/'`
 
         If :attr:`~Sitemap.location` isn't provided, the framework will call
         the ``get_absolute_url()`` method on each object as returned by
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ generate a Google News compatible sitemap:
     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
     <urlset
       xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
-      xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">
+      xmlns:news="https://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">
     {% spaceless %}
     {% for url in urlset %}
       <url>
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ that: :func:`django.contrib.sitemaps.ping_google()`.
     The :func:`ping_google` command only works if you have registered your
     site with `Google Webmaster Tools`_.
 
-.. _`Google Webmaster Tools`: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
+.. _`Google Webmaster Tools`: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
 
 One useful way to call :func:`ping_google` is from a model's ``save()``
 method::
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/sites.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/sites.txt
index baf373d529..5d5b7c0160 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/sites.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/sites.txt
@@ -252,8 +252,8 @@ To do this, you can use the sites framework. A simple example::
     '/mymodel/objects/3/'
     >>> Site.objects.get_current().domain
     'example.com'
-    >>> 'http://%s%s' % (Site.objects.get_current().domain, obj.get_absolute_url())
-    'http://example.com/mymodel/objects/3/'
+    >>> 'https://%s%s' % (Site.objects.get_current().domain, obj.get_absolute_url())
+    'https://example.com/mymodel/objects/3/'
 
 .. _enabling-the-sites-framework:
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt
index 0a91a16e40..278e293276 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/syndication.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ you want to generate feeds outside of a Web context, or in some other
 lower-level way.
 
 .. _RSS: http://www.whatisrss.com/
-.. _Atom: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287
+.. _Atom: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287
 
 The high-level framework
 ========================
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ URLs
 
 The ``link`` method/attribute can return either an absolute path (e.g.
 :file:`"/blog/"`) or a URL with the fully-qualified domain and protocol (e.g.
-``"http://www.example.com/blog/"``). If ``link`` doesn't return the domain,
+``"https://www.example.com/blog/"``). If ``link`` doesn't return the domain,
 the syndication framework will insert the domain of the current site, according
 to your :setting:`SITE_ID setting <SITE_ID>`.
 
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ This example illustrates all possible attributes and methods for a
             Returns the feed's author's URL as a normal Python string.
             """
 
-        author_link = 'http://www.example.com/' # Hard-coded author URL.
+        author_link = 'https://www.example.com/' # Hard-coded author URL.
 
         # CATEGORIES -- One of the following three is optional. The framework
         # looks for them in this order. In each case, the method/attribute
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ This example illustrates all possible attributes and methods for a
             Returns the author URL for every item in the feed.
             """
 
-        item_author_link = 'http://www.example.com/' # Hard-coded author URL.
+        item_author_link = 'https://www.example.com/' # Hard-coded author URL.
 
         # ITEM ENCLOSURES -- One of the following three is optional. The
         # framework looks for them in this order. If one of them is defined,
@@ -1004,13 +1004,13 @@ For example, to create an Atom 1.0 feed and print it to standard output::
     >>> from datetime import datetime
     >>> f = feedgenerator.Atom1Feed(
     ...     title="My Weblog",
-    ...     link="http://www.example.com/",
+    ...     link="https://www.example.com/",
     ...     description="In which I write about what I ate today.",
     ...     language="en",
     ...     author_name="Myself",
-    ...     feed_url="http://example.com/atom.xml")
+    ...     feed_url="https://example.com/atom.xml")
     >>> f.add_item(title="Hot dog today",
-    ...     link="http://www.example.com/entries/1/",
+    ...     link="https://www.example.com/entries/1/",
     ...     pubdate=datetime.now(),
     ...     description="<p>Today I had a Vienna Beef hot dog. It was pink, plump and perfect.</p>")
     >>> print(f.writeString('UTF-8'))
@@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ attributes. Thus, you can subclass the appropriate feed generator class
 (``Atom1Feed`` or ``Rss201rev2Feed``) and extend these callbacks. They are:
 
 .. _georss: http://georss.org/
-.. _itunes podcast format: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html
+.. _itunes podcast format: https://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html
 
 ``SyndicationFeed.root_attributes(self, )``
     Return a ``dict`` of attributes to add to the root feed element
diff --git a/docs/ref/csrf.txt b/docs/ref/csrf.txt
index f0c7b5b75f..d920f15e23 100644
--- a/docs/ref/csrf.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/csrf.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The first defense against CSRF attacks is to ensure that GET requests (and other
 such as POST, PUT and DELETE, can then be protected by following the steps
 below.
 
-.. _Cross Site Request Forgeries: http://www.squarefree.com/securitytips/web-developers.html#CSRF
+.. _Cross Site Request Forgeries: https://www.squarefree.com/securitytips/web-developers.html#CSRF
 
 .. _using-csrf:
 
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ The above code could be simplified by using the `JavaScript Cookie library
 
 Finally, you'll have to actually set the header on your AJAX request, while
 protecting the CSRF token from being sent to other domains using
-`settings.crossDomain <http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax>`_ in jQuery 1.5.1 and
+`settings.crossDomain <https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax>`_ in jQuery 1.5.1 and
 newer:
 
 .. code-block:: javascript
diff --git a/docs/ref/databases.txt b/docs/ref/databases.txt
index fd2a17810c..17085053c4 100644
--- a/docs/ref/databases.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/databases.txt
@@ -225,9 +225,9 @@ running ``migrate``::
         1005, "Can't create table '\\db_name\\.#sql-4a8_ab' (errno: 150)"
     )
 
-.. _storage engines: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/storage-engines.html
-.. _MyISAM: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/myisam-storage-engine.html
-.. _InnoDB: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-storage-engine.html
+.. _storage engines: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/storage-engines.html
+.. _MyISAM: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/myisam-storage-engine.html
+.. _InnoDB: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-storage-engine.html
 
 .. [#] Unless this was changed by the packager of your MySQL package. We've
    had reports that the Windows Community Server installer sets up InnoDB as
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ drivers that implement this API:
 
 .. _MySQLdb: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python/1.2.4
 .. _mysqlclient: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mysqlclient
-.. _MySQL Connector/Python: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python
+.. _MySQL Connector/Python: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python
 
 All these drivers are thread-safe and provide connection pooling. ``MySQLdb``
 is the only one not supporting Python 3 currently.
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ In addition to a DB API driver, Django needs an adapter to access the database
 drivers from its ORM. Django provides an adapter for MySQLdb/mysqlclient while
 MySQL Connector/Python includes `its own`_.
 
-.. _its own: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/connector-python-django-backend.html
+.. _its own: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/connector-python-django-backend.html
 
 MySQLdb
 ~~~~~~~
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ MySQL Connector/Python is available from the `download page`_.
 The Django adapter is available in versions 1.1.X and later. It may not
 support the most recent releases of Django.
 
-.. _download page: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/
+.. _download page: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/
 
 .. _mysql-time-zone-definitions:
 
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ If you plan on using Django's :doc:`timezone support </topics/i18n/timezones>`,
 use `mysql_tzinfo_to_sql`_ to load time zone tables into the MySQL database.
 This needs to be done just once for your MySQL server, not per database.
 
-.. _mysql_tzinfo_to_sql: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html
+.. _mysql_tzinfo_to_sql: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html
 
 Creating your database
 ----------------------
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ You can `create your database`_ using the command-line tools and this SQL::
 
 This ensures all tables and columns will use UTF-8 by default.
 
-.. _create your database: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/create-database.html
+.. _create your database: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/create-database.html
 
 .. _mysql-collation:
 
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ the MySQL documentation. In all cases, you set the collation by directly
 manipulating the database tables; Django doesn't provide a way to set this on
 the model definition.
 
-.. _documented thoroughly: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset.html
+.. _documented thoroughly: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset.html
 
 By default, with a UTF-8 database, MySQL will use the
 ``utf8_general_ci`` collation. This results in all string equality
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ you should use ``utf8_general_ci`` because it is faster. If this is not acceptab
 (for example, if you require German dictionary order), use ``utf8_unicode_ci``
 because it is more accurate.
 
-.. _MySQL Unicode Character Sets: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-unicode-sets.html
+.. _MySQL Unicode Character Sets: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-unicode-sets.html
 
 .. warning::
 
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ Several other MySQLdb connection options may be useful, such as ``ssl``,
 ``init_command``, and ``sql_mode``. Consult the `MySQLdb documentation`_ for
 more details.
 
-.. _MySQL option file: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/option-files.html
+.. _MySQL option file: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/option-files.html
 .. _MySQLdb documentation: http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/
 
 Creating your tables
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ Django uses lowercase table names when it auto-generates table names from
 models, so this is mainly a consideration if you are overriding the table name
 via the :class:`~django.db.models.Options.db_table` parameter.
 
-.. _known issues: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48875
+.. _known issues: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=48875
 
 Savepoints
 ----------
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ are predominantly read-only or require a smaller installation footprint. As
 with all database servers, though, there are some differences that are
 specific to SQLite that you should be aware of.
 
-.. _SQLite: http://www.sqlite.org/
+.. _SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org/
 
 .. _sqlite-string-matching:
 
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ would be fairly difficult to do robustly. Thus, Django exposes the default
 SQLite behavior and you should be aware of this when doing case-insensitive or
 substring filtering.
 
-.. _documented at sqlite.org: http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q18
+.. _documented at sqlite.org: https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q18
 
 Old SQLite and ``CASE`` expressions
 -----------------------------------
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ the notable exception of the Python 2.7 installers for Windows.
 As of this writing, the latest release for Windows - Python 2.7.10 - includes
 SQLite 3.6.21. You can install ``pysqlite2`` or replace ``sqlite3.dll`` (by
 default installed in ``C:\Python27\DLLs``) with a newer version from
-http://www.sqlite.org/ to remedy this issue.
+https://www.sqlite.org/ to remedy this issue.
 
 .. _handling query parameters: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24148
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/files/uploads.txt b/docs/ref/files/uploads.txt
index 8bbdb161c3..daf2b8e90c 100644
--- a/docs/ref/files/uploads.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/files/uploads.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Here are some useful attributes of ``UploadedFile``:
     handler may not receive the uploaded file content, but instead a URL or
     other pointer to the file. (see `RFC 2388`_ section 5.3).
 
-    .. _RFC 2388: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt
+    .. _RFC 2388: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt
 
 .. attribute:: UploadedFile.charset
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt b/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt
index b0273cb5f7..bdc90f09e0 100644
--- a/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ For each field, we describe the default widget used if you don't specify
         The ``image`` and ``content_type`` attributes described in the last
         paragraph were added.
 
-.. _Pillow: http://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
+.. _Pillow: https://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
 .. _Image: https://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/Image.html
 
 ``IntegerField``
diff --git a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
index 9dffa24d28..79c66e696b 100644
--- a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ optional arguments:
 
 Requires the `Pillow`_ library.
 
-.. _Pillow: http://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
+.. _Pillow: https://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
 
 :class:`ImageField` instances are created in your database as ``varchar``
 columns with a default max length of 100 characters. As with other fields, you
diff --git a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
index 310cfdb1d5..a80eef8435 100644
--- a/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/models/querysets.txt
@@ -724,8 +724,8 @@ object. If it's ``None``, Django uses the :ref:`current time zone
 
     .. _pytz: http://pytz.sourceforge.net/
     .. _Time Zones: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES
-    .. _Choosing a Time Zone File: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch4datetime.htm#NLSPG258
-    .. _mysql_tzinfo_to_sql: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html
+    .. _Choosing a Time Zone File: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch4datetime.htm#NLSPG258
+    .. _mysql_tzinfo_to_sql: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-tzinfo-to-sql.html
 
 none
 ~~~~
@@ -2789,7 +2789,7 @@ Note this is only available in MySQL and requires direct manipulation of the
 database to add the full-text index. By default Django uses BOOLEAN MODE for
 full text searches. See the `MySQL documentation`_ for additional details.
 
-.. _MySQL documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/fulltext-boolean.html
+.. _MySQL documentation: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/fulltext-boolean.html
 
 .. fieldlookup:: regex
 
@@ -3018,7 +3018,7 @@ Variance
         documentation`_ for instructions on obtaining and installing this
         extension.
 
-.. _SQLite documentation: http://www.sqlite.org/contrib
+.. _SQLite documentation: https://www.sqlite.org/contrib
 
 Query-related classes
 =====================
diff --git a/docs/ref/request-response.txt b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
index 074bdc0847..b87e24e9cb 100644
--- a/docs/ref/request-response.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ Methods
     Otherwise the absolute URI is built using the server variables available in
     this request.
 
-    Example: ``"http://example.com/music/bands/the_beatles/?print=true"``
+    Example: ``"https://example.com/music/bands/the_beatles/?print=true"``
 
     .. note::
 
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ types of HTTP responses. Like ``HttpResponse``, these subclasses live in
 
     The first argument to the constructor is required -- the path to redirect
     to. This can be a fully qualified URL
-    (e.g. ``'http://www.yahoo.com/search/'``), an absolute path with no domain
+    (e.g. ``'https://www.yahoo.com/search/'``), an absolute path with no domain
     (e.g. ``'/search/'``), or even a relative path (e.g. ``'search/'``). In that
     last case, the client browser will reconstruct the full URL itself
     according to the current path. See :class:`HttpResponse` for other optional
diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
index c2fec40dee..ad7bfaae4f 100644
--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ backend-specific.
 Supported by the PostgreSQL_ (``postgresql``) and MySQL_ (``mysql``) backends.
 
 .. _PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/multibyte.html
-.. _MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset-database.html
+.. _MySQL: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset-database.html
 
 .. setting:: TEST_COLLATION
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
index c468674206..2f3d0d57b4 100644
--- a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ date
 
 Formats a date according to the given format.
 
-Uses a similar format as PHP's ``date()`` function (http://php.net/date)
+Uses a similar format as PHP's ``date()`` function (https://php.net/date)
 with some differences.
 
 .. note::
@@ -2094,7 +2094,7 @@ output will be ``"Joel is a slug"``.
     more robust, you can use the ``bleach`` Python library, notably its
     `clean`_ method.
 
-.. _clean: http://bleach.readthedocs.org/en/latest/clean.html
+.. _clean: https://bleach.readthedocs.org/en/latest/clean.html
 
 .. templatefilter:: time
 
@@ -2324,8 +2324,8 @@ For example::
 
     {{ value|urlencode }}
 
-If ``value`` is ``"http://www.example.org/foo?a=b&c=d"``, the output will be
-``"http%3A//www.example.org/foo%3Fa%3Db%26c%3Dd"``.
+If ``value`` is ``"https://www.example.org/foo?a=b&c=d"``, the output will be
+``"https%3A//www.example.org/foo%3Fa%3Db%26c%3Dd"``.
 
 An optional argument containing the characters which should not be escaped can
 be provided.
@@ -2335,8 +2335,8 @@ provided when *all* characters should be escaped. For example::
 
     {{ value|urlencode:"" }}
 
-If ``value`` is ``"http://www.example.org/"``, the output will be
-``"http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.org%2F"``.
+If ``value`` is ``"https://www.example.org/"``, the output will be
+``"https%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.org%2F"``.
 
 .. templatefilter:: urlize
 
@@ -2346,7 +2346,7 @@ urlize
 Converts URLs and email addresses in text into clickable links.
 
 This template tag works on links prefixed with ``http://``, ``https://``, or
-``www.``. For example, ``http://goo.gl/aia1t`` will get converted but
+``www.``. For example, ``https://goo.gl/aia1t`` will get converted but
 ``goo.gl/aia1t`` won't.
 
 It also supports domain-only links ending in one of the original top level
diff --git a/docs/ref/unicode.txt b/docs/ref/unicode.txt
index 399a823b84..7c359da315 100644
--- a/docs/ref/unicode.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/unicode.txt
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ able to store certain characters in the database, and information will be lost.
 * SQLite users, there is nothing you need to do. SQLite always uses UTF-8
   for internal encoding.
 
-.. _MySQL manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset-database.html
+.. _MySQL manual: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset-database.html
 .. _PostgreSQL manual: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/multibyte.html
-.. _Oracle manual: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/toc.htm
-.. _section 2: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch2charset.htm#NLSPG002
-.. _section 11: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch11charsetmig.htm#NLSPG011
+.. _Oracle manual: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/toc.htm
+.. _section 2: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch2charset.htm#NLSPG002
+.. _section 11: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10729/ch11charsetmig.htm#NLSPG011
 
 All of Django's database backends automatically convert Unicode strings into
 the appropriate encoding for talking to the database. They also automatically
@@ -244,8 +244,8 @@ following is always true::
 So you can safely call it multiple times on the same URI/IRI without risking
 double-quoting problems.
 
-.. _URI: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
-.. _IRI: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt
+.. _URI: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
+.. _IRI: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt
 
 Models
 ======
diff --git a/docs/ref/utils.txt b/docs/ref/utils.txt
index 1e55875150..3179a5527d 100644
--- a/docs/ref/utils.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/utils.txt
@@ -333,13 +333,13 @@ For simplifying the selection of a generator use ``feedgenerator.DefaultFeed``
 which is currently ``Rss201rev2Feed``
 
 For definitions of the different versions of RSS, see:
-http://web.archive.org/web/20110718035220/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss
+https://web.archive.org/web/20110718035220/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss
 
 .. function:: get_tag_uri(url, date)
 
     Creates a TagURI.
 
-    See http://web.archive.org/web/20110514113830/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/05/28/howto-atom-id
+    See https://web.archive.org/web/20110514113830/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/05/28/howto-atom-id
 
 SyndicationFeed
 ---------------
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ Rss201rev2Feed
 
 .. class:: Rss201rev2Feed(RssFeed)
 
-    Spec: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html
+    Spec: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html
 
 RssUserland091Feed
 ------------------
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ Atom1Feed
 
 .. class:: Atom1Feed(SyndicationFeed)
 
-    Spec: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287
+    Spec: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287
 
 ``django.utils.functional``
 ===========================