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Tuesday 27 December 2011

Difference between HTTP and HTTPS


If you've ever seen an "http" and an "https" in the Uniform Resource Locator(URL) address of a website, you might have wondered what is stands for.Let's look at this bit by bit : 


HTTP   : "Hyper Text Transfer Protocol",the primary technology protocol on the Web that allows linking     and browsing.

HTTPS : "Hyper Text Transfer Protocol" with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),another protocol primarily developed with secure,safe Internet transactions in mind.

When a user connects to a website via HTTPS, the website encrypts the session with a digital certificate. A user can tell if they are connected to a secure website if the website URL begins with https:// instead of http://.                                                                                                           

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