Useful information for me
By Kalyni2011
@Kalyni2011 (3496)
India
July 14, 2012 3:55am CST
My knowledge about computers is limited, I find this useful, hope others will find it useful too.
The main difference between http:// and https://
http- for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, in https-the stands for "Secure".
If you visit a website or web page, and look at the address in the web browser, it will likely begin with the following- http://
This means that the website is talking to your browser using the regular 'unsecured' language. In other words, it is possible for someone to "eavesdrop" on your computer's conversation with the website
.
If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.
This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an http website.
But if the web address begins withhttps://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.
If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://.
If it doesn't, you should never enter sensitive information, like a credit card number, bank account number or any personal details
I am sure many will find this useful.
Please share your valued opinion.
Kalyani
14th July , 2012.
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If you fill out a form on the website, someone might see the information you send to that site.
This is why you never ever enter your credit card number in an http website.
But if the web address begins withhttps://, that basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on.
If a website ever asks you to enter your credit card information, you should automatically look to see if the web address begins with https://.
If it doesn't, you should never enter sensitive information, like a credit card number, bank account number or any personal details
I am sure many will find this useful.
Please share your valued opinion.
Kalyani 14th July , 2012.3 people like this
4 responses
@subhojit10 (7375)
• India
14 Jul 12
Thanks again ma'm for this informative post. Yeah i was even oblivious about this difference. With your post, i have almost understood the much needed difference between http:// and https://
2 people like this
@squallming (1775)
• Malaysia
14 Jul 12
Thanks for sharing the info. Actually I have came across https before when trying.to access facebook in my campus where a lot of internet content.were blocked. Using that code somehow managed to get me into the website. Still, I have no idea how successful or hpw secured it is to enter sensitive information in websites with https. Is it really that much of a difference? I hope it is. But how about those websites which claim to be secure website yet has no https such as banking and paypal websites?
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Jul 12
squallmoing check your bank again mine has the https and it does stand for secure plus other sec ure features I think all banks
on line have to have this s if it does not its breaking federal
laws. I am in the USA h owever.i have banked there for ten years and never had it broken into it is sec ure.Paypal has some sort
of security too.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Jul 12
thanks Kalyni this is much needed information for a lot
of us. we learn how to use our computers but not always
do we knoe the difference bettern http:// and https://
and this is information we need so we are sec ure when
using our credit card information. I noticed my bank'u ses https://
so it is secure also som e sites where I buy from on line always'
has the s for Secure. nice of you to show us what to l ook
for and how to read it. thanks m uch.
@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
21 Jul 12
hello kal,
for users who are not computer savvy i should say this one is very useful. do share some more when you have new ones.
and thanks for sharing.
ann
