diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -407,6 +407,7 @@
 
         docloc = os.environ.get("PYTHONDOCS", self.PYTHONDOCS)
 
+        basedir = os.path.normcase(basedir)
         if (isinstance(object, type(os)) and
             (object.__name__ in ('errno', 'exceptions', 'gc', 'imp',
                                  'marshal', 'posix', 'signal', 'sys',
@@ -414,7 +415,7 @@
              (file.startswith(basedir) and
               not file.startswith(os.path.join(basedir, 'site-packages')))) and
             object.__name__ not in ('xml.etree', 'test.pydoc_mod')):
-            if docloc.startswith("http://"):
+            if docloc.startswith("https://"):
                 docloc = "%s/%s" % (docloc.rstrip("/"), object.__name__.lower())
             else:
                 docloc = os.path.join(docloc, object.__name__.lower() + ".html")
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pydoc.py
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@
 def get_pydoc_link(module):
     "Returns a documentation web link of a module"
     dirname = os.path.dirname
-    basedir = os.path.join(dirname(dirname(__file__)))
+    basedir = dirname(dirname(__file__))
     doc = pydoc.TextDoc()
     loc = doc.getdocloc(module, basedir=basedir)
     return loc