diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index dc3377d68f8caa4..f172700a15f9d94 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ def markup(self, text, escape=None, funcs={}, classes={}, methods={}):
         escape = escape or self.escape
         results = []
         here = 0
-        pattern = re.compile(r'\b((http|ftp)://\S+[\w/]|'
+        pattern = re.compile(r'\b((http|https|ftp)://\S+[\w/]|'
                                 r'RFC[- ]?(\d+)|'
                                 r'PEP[- ]?(\d+)|'
                                 r'(self\.)?(\w+))')