Lynx handles http URLs exactly as specified in RFC1738. The format is:
http://host:port/path?searchpart#fragment
where :port is optional and defaults to :80, /path if present is a slash-separated series of symbolic elements, and ?searchpart if present is the query for an ISINDEX search or the content of a FORM with METHOD="GET". The #fragment field if present indicates a location in the document to seek for display, based on a NAME-ed anchor or an ID attribute within the document, and is technically an instruction rather than part of the URL. Lynx will treat ID attributes as NAME-ed anchors for all tags in the BODY of a document which can correspond to positions in the rendering of the document.
The https URL has the same format, but the default port is :443. Patches for support of https URLs and the CONNECT procedure are available for qualified recipients via Lynx links. US Export laws and associated red tape pose severe impediments to inclusion of this support in the general distributions of freeware WWW clients such as Lynx. Sorry.