HyperText Transmission Protocol, Secure
<protocol> (HTTPS) A variant of
HTTP used by
Netscape for handling 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 underneath
HTTP.
You need to use "https://" for HTTP
URLs with
SSL, whereas you continue to use "http://" for HTTP URLs without SSL.
The default "https"
port number is 443, as assigned by the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
(http://www.netscape.com/info/security-doc.html).
