Thread: http VS https

The main difference between http and https is, It's all about keeping you secure

HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol, which is just a fancy way of saying it's a protocol (a language, in a manner of speaking) for information to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients.

The important thing is the letter S which makes the difference between HTTP and HTTPS.

The S (big surprise) stands for "Secure".

If you visit a website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http:

This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecure' language.

In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the website.

If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.

This is why you never ever ever enter your credit card number in an http website!

But if the web address begins with https: that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.

You understand why this is so important, right?

If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https:

If it doesn't, there's no way you're going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number!

Yes... You are correct. Useful information...

not sure why did you use that font ...

Your fonts made me afraid. heheee. By the way thanks a lot for sharing the difference between http and https.
Yes, we should never enter our credit card or bank account information in a page which does not use https.

Originally Posted by sussy19

The main difference between http and https is, It's all about keeping you secure

HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol, which is just a fancy way of saying it's a protocol (a language, in a manner of speaking) for information to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients.

The important thing is the letter S which makes the difference between HTTP and HTTPS.

The S (big surprise) stands for "Secure".

If you visit a website or webpage, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http:

This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecure' language.

In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the website.

If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.

This is why you never ever ever enter your credit card number in an http website!

But if the web address begins with https: that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.

You understand why this is so important, right?

If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https:

If it doesn't, there's no way you're going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number!

http means Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and https means Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Securely.

That's the reason why most shopping sites are https

Good to know the difference here.

Not to say that all "secure" pages are okay. You also have to worry about who exactly is gathering your personally identifiable info, and whether they can be trusted or not...

You shared a good information. How we can know that the connection is secure if we are using https

I higly recommend to use HTTPS connections on social networks, because alot of data steal change from there.

HTTP is not secure and anyone can eavesdrop on the conversation between the client and the server but HTTPS is secure that encrypts and decrypts the web pages of the clients and server and it is not shared by the third party.

I use to wonder what is the diffrence and now i got it. Thanks a lot for that. Keep sharing such precious information.