The ‘S’ stands for “Secure”. HTTPS is encrypted with SSL or, nowadays, TLS which means a third party can’t intercept and read your transferred data. Http on the other hand is sent in clear text, meaning its contents can be read by anyone who can access it.
Edit: thanks nasteva@jlai.lu for the correction! I got the encryption algorithms mixed up.
The ‘S’ stands for “Secure”. HTTPS is encrypted with SSL or, nowadays, TLS which means a third party can’t intercept and read your transferred data. Http on the other hand is sent in clear text, meaning its contents can be read by anyone who can access it.
Edit: thanks nasteva@jlai.lu for the correction! I got the encryption algorithms mixed up.
Didn’t TLS supersede SSL?
Correct, SSL was deprecated in 2015 in favor of TLS.
Shoot, you’re correct. My bad!