Http vs Https

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Member • Sep 1, 2010

Http vs Https

What is the difference between http and https??
why do some sites show http and some https??
what is the reason....

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bill190

Member • Sep 1, 2010

I searched google.com for https and found this...
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Secure" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Http Secure</a>

More...
<a href="https://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=https&aq=f&aqi=g6g-s1g3&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=CVzg9Wo5-TMC4FJqWoASMpKXYBAAAAKoEBU_QhL6E&pbx=1&fp=1c2291f8c4f94198" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Google</a>

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Special

Member • Sep 1, 2010

@bill
i also googled it out but my question is that why do only some sites have https and some has http

for example when we login into orkut the site is first https but when we get completed that is we are on our home page then its http.....
why???

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bill190

Member • Sep 1, 2010

https is secure or encrypted.

That means someone monitoring your message would not be able to see what you were typing.

So if you are entering a password or your credit card information, you would want this to be done via https.

If it is a regular http connection and you enter a password (and the password is Engineer), then it would look like this to someone monitoring your connection...
Engineer

If it is https, then it might look something like this...
M1xRlHiU20B

Read about encryption...

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bill190

Member • Sep 1, 2010

Also encrypting and disencrypting messages takes a lot of computer power.

So they will have you login with https, then switch to http (less computer power) to do things which do not need to be encrypted.

Or you may look at something to buy with http pages, then when you go to buy it, they switch to https so you can enter your credit card information, etc.

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Member • Sep 1, 2010

@bill
thnaks a lot
it was really a good answer and this time i am satisfied

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Member • Sep 1, 2010

Adding more information
whenever we check our mail our inbox it is in https mode,
so our mailbox or inbox is secured!!

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deepika mishra

Member • Sep 1, 2010

@bill 190: a very good reply.I was also confused for the switching between http and https.

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xxxabhash007

Member • Sep 3, 2010

Really valuable post indeed.

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