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3.1 http and https

The scheme http is Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The library supports version 1.1, specified in RFC 2616. (This supersedes 1.0, defined in RFC 1945) HTTP URLs have the following form, where most of the parts are optional:

     http://user:password@host:port/path?searchpart#fragment

The scheme https is a secure version of http, with transmission via SSL. It is defined in RFC 2069. Its default port is 443. This scheme depends on SSL support in Emacs via the ssl.el library and is actually implemented by forcing the ssl gateway method to be used. See Gateways in general.

— User Option: url-honor-refresh-requests

This controls honoring of HTTP ‘Refresh’ headers by which servers can direct clients to reload documents from the same URL or a or different one. nil means they will not be honored, t (the default) means they will always be honored, and otherwise the user will be asked on each request.