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HTTP VS HTTPS

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HTTP HTTP stands for hyper text transfer protocol. It's a protocol for communication over a computer network which was widely used on the internet but now many of them are using HTTPS HTTPS stands for HTTP over SSL HTTPS is more secured than HTTP. * HTTPS consist of communication over HTTP within a connection encrypted by TLS or its predecessor,secure socket layer(SSL) * The main motivation for HTTPS is authentication of the visited website and protection of the privacy and integrity of the exchanged data. *In its popular deployment on the internet,HTTPS provides authentication of the website and associated web server with which one is communication which protects against man-in the-middle attacks. Additionaly it provides bidirectional encryption of communications between a client and server which protects against tampering with or forging the contents of the communication. *It is ensuring that the contents of communication  between the user and site ...