meaning of hypertext transmission protocol secure

1. HyperText Transmission Protocol, Secure 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.

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