What is HTTPS?

[Walteradams]

Computer dictionary definition for what HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) means including related links, information, and terms.

[aceamerican]

HTTPS is a protocol for secure communication over a computer network which is widely used on the Internet.

[pablohunt2812]

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. HTTPS is often used to protect highly confidential online transactions like online banking and online shopping order forms.

Web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome also display a padlock icon in the address bar to visually indicate that a HTTPS connection is in effect.

How Does HTTPS Work?

HTTPS pages typically use one of two secure protocols to encrypt communications - SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security). Both the TLS and SSL protocols use what is known as an 'asymmetric' Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) system. An asymmetric system uses two 'keys' to encrypt communications, a 'public' key and a 'private' key. Anything encrypted with the public key can only be decrypted by the private key and vice-versa.

As the names suggest, the 'private' key should be kept strictly protected and should only be accessible the owner of the private key. In the case of a website, the private key remains securely ensconced on the web server. Conversely, the public key is intended to be distributed to anybody and everybody that needs to be able to decrypt information that was encrypted with the private key.

[Bluesky94]

HTTPS is a protocol for secure communication over a computer network which is widely used on the Internet. HTTPS consists of communication over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) within a connection encrypted by Transport Layer Security or its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer. The main motivation for HTTPS is authentication of the visited website and protection of the privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.
In its popular deployment on the internet, HTTPS provides authentication of the website and associated web server with which one is communicating, which protects against man-in-the-middle attacks. Additionally, it provides bidirectional encryption of communications between a client and server, which protects against eavesdropping and tampering with or forging the contents of the communication. In practice, this provides a reasonable guarantee that one is communicating with precisely the website that one intended to communicate with (as opposed to an impostor), as well as ensuring that the contents of communications between the user and site cannot be read or forged by any third party.
Historically, HTTPS connections were primarily used for payment transactions on the World Wide Web, e-mail and for sensitive transactions in corporate information systems. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, HTTPS began to see widespread use for protecting page authenticity on all types of websites, securing accounts and keeping user communications, identity and web browsing private.

[educaindia]

HTTPS is Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure.

[Liyanscom3]

Https is Hyper text transfer protocol Secure.

[luyenhoiuc]

HTTPS (also called HTTP over TLS, HTTP over SSL, and HTTP Secure) is a protocol for secure communication over a computer network which is widely used on the Internet. HTTPS consists of communication over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) within a connection encrypted by Transport Layer Security, or its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer. The main motivation for HTTPS is authentication of the visited website and protection of the privacy and integrity of the exchanged data.

[PonchoShop]

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted.

[Liyans_Tech]

Https is Hyper Text transfer Protocol Secure.

[RashidS45]

HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP. It is the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to.

[charlottegracie]

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted.

[sam657]

HTTPS stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secured. It is a secured version of HTTP

[singhabhishek25]

Any website is called https secured when it redirects to http instead of https which means it encrypts data while sending to other hosts. Now a days Google is also recommending to have all websites https secured to make internet more safer by securing all websites with https protocol.

[meerashah]

Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.

[Walteradams]

Extremely Text Transfer Method Protected (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your web browser and the site that you are connected to. The 'S' at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all emails between your web browser and the site are secured.