diff --git a/internal_test.go b/internal_test.go
index 12b8ad01..e5eefd05 100644
--- a/internal_test.go
+++ b/internal_test.go
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func TestJsonRpcSend(t *testing.T) {
 	password := "something"
 	server := "invalid"
 	var message []byte
-	_, err := jsonRpcSend(user, password, server, message)
+	_, err := jsonRpcSend(user, password, server, message, false, nil, false)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Errorf("Should fail when it cannot connect.")
 	}
diff --git a/jsonapi.go b/jsonapi.go
index 13e6e889..9ecd5b01 100644
--- a/jsonapi.go
+++ b/jsonapi.go
@@ -872,16 +872,32 @@ func JSONGetMethod(message []byte) (string, error) {
 	return method, err
 }
 
+// TlsRpcCommand takes a message generated from one of the routines above
+// along with the login/server information and any relavent PEM encoded
+// certificates chains. It sends the command via https and returns a go struct
+// with the result.
+func TlsRpcCommand(user string, password string, server string, message []byte,
+	certificates []byte, skipverify bool) (Reply, error) {
+	return rpcCommand(user, password, server, message, true, certificates,
+		skipverify)
+}
+
 // RpcCommand takes a message generated from one of the routines above
 // along with the login/server info, sends it, and gets a reply, returning
 // a go struct with the result.
 func RpcCommand(user string, password string, server string, message []byte) (Reply, error) {
+	return rpcCommand(user, password, server, message, false, nil, false)
+}
+
+func rpcCommand(user string, password string, server string, message []byte,
+	https bool, certificates []byte, skipverify bool) (Reply, error) {
 	var result Reply
 	method, err := JSONGetMethod(message)
 	if err != nil {
 		return result, err
 	}
-	body, err := RpcRawCommand(user, password, server, message)
+	body, err := rpcRawCommand(user, password, server, message, https,
+		certificates, skipverify)
 	if err != nil {
 		err := fmt.Errorf("Error getting json reply: %v", err)
 		return result, err
@@ -894,10 +910,26 @@ func RpcCommand(user string, password string, server string, message []byte) (Re
 	return result, err
 }
 
+// TlsRpcRawCommand takes a message generated from one of the routines above
+// along with the login,server info and PEM encoded certificate chains for the
+// server  sends it, and gets a reply, returning
+// the raw []byte response for use with ReadResultCmd.
+func TlsRpcRawCommand(user string, password string, server string,
+	message []byte, certificates []byte, skipverify bool) ([]byte, error) {
+	return rpcRawCommand(user, password, server, message, true,
+		certificates, skipverify)
+}
+
 // RpcRawCommand takes a message generated from one of the routines above
 // along with the login/server info, sends it, and gets a reply, returning
 // the raw []byte response for use with ReadResultCmd.
 func RpcRawCommand(user string, password string, server string, message []byte) ([]byte, error) {
+	return rpcRawCommand(user, password, server, message, false, nil, false)
+}
+
+// rpcRawCommand is a helper function for the above two functions.
+func rpcRawCommand(user string, password string, server string,
+	message []byte, https bool, certificates []byte, skipverify bool) ([]byte, error) {
 	var result []byte
 	var msg interface{}
 	err := json.Unmarshal(message, &msg)
@@ -905,7 +937,8 @@ func RpcRawCommand(user string, password string, server string, message []byte)
 		err := fmt.Errorf("Error, message does not appear to be valid json: %v", err)
 		return result, err
 	}
-	resp, err := jsonRpcSend(user, password, server, message)
+	resp, err := jsonRpcSend(user, password, server, message, https,
+		certificates, skipverify)
 	if err != nil {
 		err := fmt.Errorf("Error sending json message: " + err.Error())
 		return result, err
diff --git a/jsonfxns.go b/jsonfxns.go
index cc323879..f4479cf8 100644
--- a/jsonfxns.go
+++ b/jsonfxns.go
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ package btcjson
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	_ "crypto/sha512"
+	"crypto/tls"
+	"crypto/x509"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
@@ -32,9 +35,24 @@ func MarshallAndSend(rawReply Reply, w io.Writer) (string, error) {
 // and ip/port and then send the supplied message.  This uses net/http rather
 // than net/rpc/jsonrpc since that one doesn't support http connections and is
 // therefore useless.
-func jsonRpcSend(user string, password string, server string, message []byte) (*http.Response, error) {
+func jsonRpcSend(user string, password string, server string, message []byte,
+	https bool, certificates []byte, skipverify bool) (*http.Response, error) {
+	client := &http.Client{}
+	protocol := "http"
+	if https {
+		pool := x509.NewCertPool()
+		pool.AppendCertsFromPEM(certificates)
+
+		config := &tls.Config{
+			InsecureSkipVerify: skipverify,
+			RootCAs:            pool,
+		}
+		transport := &http.Transport{TLSClientConfig: config}
+		client.Transport = transport
+		protocol = "https"
+	}
 	credentials := user + ":" + password
-	resp, err := http.Post("http://"+credentials+"@"+server,
+	resp, err := client.Post(protocol+"://"+credentials+"@"+server,
 		"application/json", bytes.NewBuffer(message))
 	if err != nil {
 		// We do not want to log the username/password in the errors.