How about making BatClient regocnize https links?

That is a bit difficult to fix for us, would need to patch mouseClicked and
maybe the MouseMotionListener in
com.mythicscape.batclient.desktop.BatTextPane.class. Currently playing around a
bit with it, but the exception handler there is a bit fishy.

Ok, I fixed it - first of all I couldn't fully test it because clicking on a
link only throws UnsupportedOperationException for me, but that isn't
mythicscape fault.

Problem is now, since it requires editing the class files I am not sure on
whether I am allowed to distribute a diff, so I will describe what I did.
First of all download the client, I am still using 1.97 so there is a small
chance that they changed something there. After downloading the jar file unpack
it with 'jar -xvf file.jar' and go to com/mythicscape/batclient/desktop there
are 2 files to edit BatTextPane$1.class for the mouseover effect and
BatTextPane$2.class for the actual clicking. Now the best idea would of course
be to change the if(s.startsWith("http://")) to if(s.startsWith("http://") ||
s.startsWith("https://")). Since that would require to get java to assemble
things together again, I decided to locate the constant pool instead and
changed the "http://" to "http". That shouldn't be much of a problem since
usally words don't start with http. If you plan to use
http://sourceforge.net/projects/classeditor/ note that the current version has
a bug and you should change in line 60 of
classfile/attributes/InnerClassesAttribute.java to
dos.writeInt(iNumberOfClasses); to dos.writeShort(iNumberOfClasses);
Finding that bug took quite a while..
After changing the 2 classfiles you can pack the jar file together again or
just start the Main.class directly from where ever you placed the com folder.

That was it, problem solved.