diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 500b858dca..b32687766b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Fri Feb  6 22:48:16 2004  Dave Thomas  <dave@pragprog.com>
+
+	* lib/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb (gen_url): Support 
+	  https in RDoc hyperlinks
+
 Fri Feb  6 22:41:22 2004  NAKAMURA, Hiroshi  <nakahiro@sarion.co.jp>
 
 	* lib/pp.rb (PPInspectTest#test_to_s_with_iv): rollback the previous
diff --git a/lib/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb b/lib/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb
index 0016ee026b..56ac2b7499 100644
--- a/lib/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb
+++ b/lib/rdoc/generators/html_generator.rb
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ module Generators
                             :CROSSREF)
 
         # external hyperlinks
-        @markup.add_special(/((link:|http:|mailto:|ftp:|www\.)\S+\w)/, :HYPERLINK)
+        @markup.add_special(/((link:|https?:|mailto:|ftp:|www\.)\S+\w)/, :HYPERLINK)
 
         # and links of the form  <text>[<url>]
         @markup.add_special(/\b(\S+?\[\S+?\.\S+?\])/, :TIDYLINK)