LKBEN11112: What is HTTPS?


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.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

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. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

Latest update: 05/10/2020