HTTP vs HTTPS

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What makes HTTP and HTTPS different from one another? An S. The only difference between them is the S, which stands for secure. HTTPS stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure in its full form. Our data is protected since HTTPS has a separate security layer associated with it. Except for it, they both work in the same way.



When using the HTTP protocol, a request sent from the client to the server across the Internet is sent to the server as plain text. As a result, if a hacker succeeds to bypass our request, he will obtain our sensitive data and be able to use it against us in a variety of ways.

On the other hand, with the HTTPS protocol, our data is sent to the server encrypted, meaning that even if a hacker obtains it, he cannot harm us. In this method, the Client first sends the Server a Request for SSL/TLS Communication, and the Server acknowledges the Request and sends an Encrypted Public Key or SSL Certificate, the Client then verifies the SSL Certificate, and if the SSL Certificate is trusted, the Client sends the Server a new encrypted request, which the Server decrypts and gives the response accordingly.

Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, is added to our raw data to encrypt it in HTTPS protocol. SSL 2.0, the first version of SSL, was launched in 1995. But, due to several issues, Transport Layer Security (TLS), an updated version of SSL 2.0 was released in 1999.  So it can be said that SSL and TLS are the same.


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