The "S" in HTTPS indicates a secure site. If you visit a web site or web page, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following: http://. This means that the web site is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecured' language. In other If you fill out a form on the web site, someone might see the information you send to that site. This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an http web site! But if the web address begins with https://, your computer is talking to the web site in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.
If a web site ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should 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!
May 23rd, 2014 ADDENDUM:
Before the important informational contributions of Mr. Edward Snowden, it was generally believed the above to be essentially factual. Today however, it
is possible that even TLS/SSL encryption does not guarantee cryptographic
integrity of messages, unfortunately. In all respects, the author of the above answer is, we believe, correct.
Unfortunately, there are other ways to intercept and read date in transit via mechanisms such as the MitM (Man in the Middle) attack, even without the involvement of the NSA.
HTTPS is secure (hence the S). This means it's an encrypted connection, so (theoretically) the data cannot be read by anyone except you and the intended recipient (the server).
Https also known as "hypertext transfer protocol secure" is more secure than httpas the name suggests.
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HTTPS is based on HTTP. HTTPS is an encrypted version of HTTP.
http is secured https is not secured
Some websites require HTTPS as a security issue. HTTPS is much more secure than HTTP.
HTTPS is simply HTTP with encryption. You send encrypted data to the server, and it decrypts it. THe same thing happens in reverse. It's not like HTTP and FTP, where the data is completely different and you would need a "converter" so to speak.
No, https indicates that your http connection is encrypted and therefore secure.
HTTP is short for Hyper text transfer protocol. HTTPs is short for hyper text transfer protocol (security). So when ever you are using a secured site like facebook or twitter HTTP turns to HTTPs.
type https in the address for example http://facebook.comwould now be https://facebook.com
use an addon by the name of "https everywhere".
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http or https http is hyper text transfer protocol https is hyper text transfer protocol secure sockets
Https is a more secure. Http is not necessarily secure at all. FTP is used to connect to a file server while HTTP connects to a web server.