Players often share URLs via game chat. We can open a hyperlink by clicking on its area in the console. Unfortunately, URLs that begin with https:// are not clickable (in contrast to http://). I think, there is no reason to keep this limitation.

You could also notice that characters < and > are replaced with ( and ) when drawed in console. I found such a behavior odd and unnecessary. To prevent parsing < and > as parts of HTML tags, it's enough to replace such characters with &lt; and &gt;

Suggested resolution:

- in UWindow/UWindowConsoleTextAreaControl.uc define function AddText as follows:

function UWindowDynamicTextRow AddText(string NewLine, optional color TxtCol )
{
	local int i, j;
	local UWindowHTMLTextRow L;
	local HTMLStyle CurrentStyle;
	local string Prefix, LowNewLine;

	CurrentStyle.BulletLevel = 0;
	CurrentStyle.LinkDestination = "";
	if( TxtCol.R==0 && TxtCol.G==0 && TxtCol.B==0 )
		CurrentStyle.TextColor = TextColor;
	else CurrentStyle.TextColor = TxtCol;

	// Replace <>
	NewLine = ReplaceStr(NewLine, "<", "&lt;");
	NewLine = ReplaceStr(NewLine, ">", "&gt;");

	// Add links
	while (Len(NewLine) > 0)
	{
		LowNewLine = Locs(NewLine);
		i = InStr(LowNewLine, "http");
		j = InStr(LowNewLine, "www.");

		if (i >= 0 && (j < 0 || i < j)) // parse "http"
		{
			if (Mid(LowNewLine, i, 7) == "http://" || Mid(LowNewLine, i, 8) == "https://")
			{
				if (i > 0 || Len(Prefix) > 0)
				{
					L = UWindowHTMLTextRow(Super(UWindowDynamicTextArea).AddText(Prefix $ Left(NewLine, i)));
					L.StartStyle = CurrentStyle;
					L.StartStyle.bNoBR = true;
				}
				NewLine = Mid(NewLine, i);
				Prefix = "";
				i = InStr(NewLine, " ");
				if (i >= 0)
				{
					L = UWindowHTMLTextRow(Super(UWindowDynamicTextArea).AddText(Left(NewLine, i)));
					L.StartStyle = CurrentStyle;
					L.StartStyle.LinkDestination = L.Text;
					NewLine = Mid(NewLine, i + 1);
				}
				else
				{
					L = UWindowHTMLTextRow(Super(UWindowDynamicTextArea).AddText(NewLine));
					L.StartStyle = CurrentStyle;
					L.StartStyle.LinkDestination = NewLine;
					NewLine = "";
				}
			}
			else
			{
				// skip "http"
				Prefix $= Left(NewLine, i + 3);
				NewLine = Mid(NewLine, i + 3);
				continue;
			}
		}
		else if (j >= 0) // parse "www."
		{
			if (j > 0 && Mid(NewLine, j - 1, 1) != " ")
			{
				Prefix $= Left(NewLine, j + 3);
				NewLine = Mid(NewLine, j + 3);
				continue;
			}
			if (j > 0 || Len(Prefix) > 0)
			{
				L = UWindowHTMLTextRow(Super(UWindowDynamicTextArea).AddText(Prefix $ Left(NewLine, j)));
				L.StartStyle = CurrentStyle;
				L.StartStyle.bNoBR = true;
			}
			NewLine = Mid(NewLine, j);
			Prefix = "";
			i = InStr(NewLine, " ");
			if (i >= 0)
			{
				L = UWindowHTMLTextRow(Super(UWindowDynamicTextArea).AddText("http://" $ Left(NewLine, i)));
				L.StartStyle = CurrentStyle;
				L.StartStyle.LinkDestination = L.Text;
				NewLine = Mid(NewLine, i + 1);
			}
			else
			{
				L = UWindowHTMLTextRow(Super(UWindowDynamicTextArea).AddText("http://" $ NewLine));
				L.StartStyle = CurrentStyle;
				L.StartStyle.LinkDestination = L.Text;
				NewLine = "";
			}
		}
		else
			break;
		L.StartStyle.bLink = true;
		L.StartStyle.bNoBR = true;
	}

	NewLine = Prefix $ NewLine;

	// End line.
	if( Len(NewLine)>0 )
	{
		L = UWindowHTMLTextRow(Super(UWindowDynamicTextArea).AddText(NewLine));
		L.StartStyle = CurrentStyle;
	}
	return L;
} 

- in UWindow/UWindowHTMLTextArea.uc modify function ProcessURL as follows:

....
	if ( Left(URL, 7) ~= "http://" )
		GetPlayerOwner().ConsoleCommand("start "$URL);
	if ( Left(URL, 8) ~= "https://" )
		GetPlayerOwner().ConsoleCommand("start "$URL);
.... 

UWindow/UWindowConsoleTextAreaControl.uc
UWindow/UWindowHTMLTextArea.uc

Implementation note: the suggested modification should guarantee that multiple URLs of any of the following forms are drawed correctly:

    http://ref
    https://ref
    www.ref

The original implementation ignores upper-case forms HTTP:// WWW.
The suggested implementation parses URLs in a case-insensitive manner.

If you see any potential problems with the new parser, please, share your thoughts.

nice fix. No objections from my side building it in. While talking about script fixes, could I beg you checking what's the trouble with the 4 teams scoreboard is?

very cool. Thanks!