Explain HTTPS ?

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Answer / jguru

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure sockets (HTTPS) is a
protocol for transmission of encrypted hypertext over Secure
Sockets Layer.

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Answer / shoban babu . d

It is Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure sockets is uses
port number 443(SSL) Secured Socket Layer which is used for
Encryption . Whereas SSL creates a secure connection between
a client and a server, over which any amount of data can be
sent securely, S-HTTP is designed to transmit individual
messages securely.SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses
two keys to encrypt data − a public key known to everyone
and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of
the message .

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Answer / mahendra bhat

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia
information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World-Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. The
first version of HTTP, referred to as HTTP/0.9, was a simple protocol for raw data transfer across the Internet.
HTTP/1.0, as defined by RFC 1945 [6], improved the protocol by allowing messages to be in the format of MIMElike messages, containing metainformation about the data transferred and modifiers on the request/response
semantics. However, HTTP/1.0 does not sufficiently take into consideration the effects of hierarchical proxies,
caching, the need for persistent connections, or virtual hosts. In addition, the proliferation of incompletelyimplemented applications calling themselves “HTTP/1.0” has necessitated a protocol version change in order for two
communicating applications to determine each other’s true capabilities.
This specification defines the protocol referred to as “HTTP/1.1”. This protocol includes more stringent
requirements than HTTP/1.0 in order to ensure reliable implementation of its features.
Practical information systems require more functionality than simple retrieval, including search, front-end update,
and annotation. HTTP allows an open-ended set of methods and headers that indicate the purpose of a request [47].
It builds on the discipline of reference provided by the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) [3], as a location (URL)
[4] or name (URN) [20], for indicating the resource to which a method is to be applied. Messages are passed in a
format similar to that used by Internet mail [9] as defined by the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) [7].
HTTP is also used as a generic protocol for communication between user agents and proxies/gateways to other
Internet systems, including those supported by the SMTP [16], NNTP [13], FTP [18], Gopher [2], and WAIS [10]
protocols. In this way, HTTP allows basic hypermedia access to resources available from diverse applications.

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