diff --git a/term/Cargo.toml b/term/Cargo.toml
index 03f2779ec..b79b87983 100644
--- a/term/Cargo.toml
+++ b/term/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 [dependencies]
 bitflags = "1.0.1"
 failure = "0.1.1"
+maplit = "1.0.1"
 palette = "0.2.1"
 serde = "1.0.27"
 serde_derive = "1.0.27"
@@ -14,5 +15,4 @@ unicode-width = "0.1.4"
 vte = "0.3.2"
 
 [features]
-# When enabled, print the results of parsing the input stream to stdout
 debug-escape-sequences = []
diff --git a/term/src/hyperlink.rs b/term/src/hyperlink.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2eeba3c69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/term/src/hyperlink.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+//! Handling hyperlinks.
+//! This gist describes an escape sequence for explicitly managing hyperlinks:
+//! https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3cb5fedaA
+//! We use that as the foundation of our hyperlink support, and the game
+//! plan is to then implicitly enable the hyperlink attribute for a cell
+//! as we recognize linkable input text during print() processing.
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
+/// The spec says that the escape sequence is of the form:
+/// OSC 8 ; params ; URI BEL|ST
+/// params is an optional list of key=value assignments,
+/// separated by the : character. Example: id=xyz123:foo=bar:baz=quux.
+/// This function parses such a string and returns the mapping
+/// of key to value.  Malformed input causes subsequent key/value pairs
+/// to be skipped, returning the data successfully parsed out so far.
+pub fn parse_link_params(params: &str) -> HashMap<&str, &str> {
+    let mut map = HashMap::new();
+    for kv in params.split(":") {
+        let mut iter = kv.splitn(2, "=");
+        let key = iter.next();
+        let value = iter.next();
+        match (key, value) {
+            (Some(key), Some(value)) => map.insert(key, value),
+            _ => break,
+        };
+    }
+
+    map
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod test {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parse_link() {
+        assert_eq!(parse_link_params(""), hashmap!{});
+        assert_eq!(parse_link_params("foo"), hashmap!{});
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse_link_params("foo=bar=baz"),
+            hashmap!{"foo" => "bar=baz"}
+        );
+        assert_eq!(parse_link_params("foo=bar"), hashmap!{"foo" => "bar"});
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse_link_params("id=1234:foo=bar"),
+            hashmap!{
+                "id" => "1234",
+                "foo" => "bar"
+            }
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse_link_params("id=1234:foo=bar:"),
+            hashmap!{
+                "id" => "1234",
+                "foo" => "bar"
+            }
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/term/src/lib.rs b/term/src/lib.rs
index cc7dba22f..c4e13d766 100644
--- a/term/src/lib.rs
+++ b/term/src/lib.rs
@@ -13,14 +13,19 @@ extern crate serde;
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate serde_derive;
 extern crate vte;
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate maplit;
 
 use failure::Error;
 use std::ops::{Deref, DerefMut, Range};
+use std::str;
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 
 #[macro_use]
 mod debug;
 
+pub mod hyperlink;
+
 /// Represents the index into screen.lines.  Index 0 is the top of
 /// the scrollback (if any).  The index of the top of the visible screen
 /// depends on the terminal dimensions and the scrollback size.
@@ -1808,7 +1813,6 @@ impl vte::Perform for TerminalState {
     fn osc_dispatch(&mut self, osc: &[&[u8]]) {
         match osc {
             &[b"0", title] => {
-                use std::str;
                 if let Ok(title) = str::from_utf8(title) {
                     self.answerback.push(
                         AnswerBack::TitleChanged(title.to_string()),
@@ -1817,6 +1821,16 @@ impl vte::Perform for TerminalState {
                     println!("OSC: failed to decode utf for {:?}", title);
                 }
             }
+            &[b"8", params, url] => {
+                if let Ok(params) = str::from_utf8(params) {
+                    println!("set URL params={}", params);
+                }
+                if let Ok(url) = str::from_utf8(url) {
+                    println!("set URL attribute={}", url);
+                } else {
+                    println!("OSC: failed to decode utf for {:?}", url);
+                }
+            }
             _ => {
                 println!("OSC unhandled: {:?}", osc);
             }