HyperText Transmission Protocol, Secure

HyperText Transmission Protocol, Secure

(protocol)(HTTPS) A variant of HTTP used by Netscape forhandling secure transactions.

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.