LKBEN11112: What is HTTPS?
LKB | Created: 02/04/2020 | Version: 1 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False
Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Latest update: 05/10/2020 | Comment:
Symptom
You need to know what is HTTPS.
Cause
You want to know what HTTPS is.
Solution
HTTPS stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure.
HTTPS is a technique for sending data securely in the World Wide Web. The HTTPS protcol is beeing used to encrypt and to authenticate the communication between a webserver and a browser in the internet.
About the Author
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.