http and
httpsThe 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.
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.
nilmeans they will not be honored,t(the default) means they will always be honored, and otherwise the user will be asked on each request.