Uppercase url in fromHTML results in crash

Question

Why does this crash when touched:
text_link.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href="HTTP://WWW.GOOGLE.COM"&gt;Test&lt;/a&gt;"));

But this works fine:
text_link.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href="http://www.google.com"&gt;Test&lt;/a&gt;"));

The only difference is the url in the first is UPPERCASE and the bottom is not.