Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with the SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a widely used communications protocol for secure communication over a computer network, with especially wide deployment on the Internet. Technically, it is not a protocol in itself; rather, it is the result of simply layering the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) on top of the SSL/TLS protocol, thus adding the security capabilities of SSL/TLS to standard HTTP communications.
HTTP uses the client/server computing model, where a client makes a request of a server for access to a file or to pass a message to a program that runs in the server computer. The server takes the requested action and returns a response. 5
See the tag ssl for more information on Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
