HyperText Transmission Protocol, Secure
HyperText Transmission Protocol, Secure
(protocol)The Netscape Navigator supports a URL access method,"https", for connecting to HTTP servers using SSL.
"https" is a unique protocol that is simply SSL underneathHTTP. You need to use "https://" for HTTP URLs withSSL, whereas you continue to use "http://" for HTTP URLswithout SSL. The default "https" port number is 443, asassigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
http://netscape.com/info/security-doc.html.