What is https

Does anyone has some good documentation about https or knows a good site about it, because I want some more information about this subject. I know it has something to do with security, but that's all I know.

Thx

Try search for it's full name. Hyper text transfer protocol

actually it is Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

Oh. In that case wouldn't you be more interested in something like SSL?

What is that?

Secure Sockets Layer. It's 128-bit encryption used to transfer secure information over the internet, like credit card information. I think it needs a SSL server to process the requests though.

I found some information about this, but I'm not clear about something. Originally SSL was been developed by Netscape, does this mean this protocol only works with Netscape Navigator?

No, I have a webhost with Linux servers that support SSL protocol.

If I recall right, I think Netscape originally introduced it, but flubbed it up, because their random number generator used in their protection algorithm wasn't so random. So two brain childs found the pattern and used it to decrypt any information being sent using SSL, and at the time those were mostly credit card numbers. Imagine that. I think that was part of the reason why Netscape went bust.

Thx for your help

No it's not limited to Nutscrape.. Have you ever been to a website, and seen that gold lock appear in the bottom part of the status bar in Internet Explorer. That indicates that you're using SSL.

Can I ask you one last question. If I want to implement SSL, do I have to add some code to my webpages? Or how does it work?

It's a protocol. I don't think you can use it with regular HTML. I know that PHP supports it, and I'm damn sure that Perl does. Any other High Level languages can probably interface with it, but I like I said before I think it needs to be installed on a webserver for it to process the commands you send it through script languages.

Thx, you've been a great help

np