diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Link.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Link.php
index 31e8ba12f5..dfd8fceaf8 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Link.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Link.php
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ class Link
         $uri = trim($this->getRawUri());
 
         // absolute URL?
-        if (0 === strpos($uri, 'http')) {
+        if (null !== parse_url($uri, PHP_URL_SCHEME)) {
             return $uri;
         }
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Tests/LinkTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Tests/LinkTest.php
index 5d40179a53..976082d3ee 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Tests/LinkTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DomCrawler/Tests/LinkTest.php
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ class LinkTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
             array('?a=b', 'http://localhost/bar/', 'http://localhost/bar/?a=b'),
 
             array('http://login.foo.com/foo', 'http://localhost/bar/', 'http://login.foo.com/foo'),
+            array('https://login.foo.com/foo', 'https://localhost/bar/', 'https://login.foo.com/foo'),
+            array('mailto:foo@bar.com', 'http://localhost/foo', 'mailto:foo@bar.com'),
 
             array('?foo=2', 'http://localhost?foo=1', 'http://localhost?foo=2'),
             array('?foo=2', 'http://localhost/?foo=1', 'http://localhost/?foo=2'),