What is the difference between http and https?
**The main difference between http:// and https:// is It’s all about keeping you secure**
Update:
Goole Search & SSL Encryption
Google is a big proponent of the “HTTPS everywhere” idea. Users of Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Drive automatically have an encrypted connection to Google.
Google officially announced that HTTPS is used as a signal in their search ranking algorithm.
Enhanced data security is a good thing.
The HTTPS encryption on web pages makes sure that information is secured via the ‘Transport Layer Security’ protocol (TLS), which provides three key layers of protection:
1.. Encryption: When you are browsing our website, nobody can ‘listen’ to your conversations, track your activities across multiple pages, or steal your information.
2.. Data integrity: Data cannot be modified or corrupted during transfer, intentionally or otherwise, without being detected.
3.. Authentication: HTTPS makes sure that you communicate with the intended website.
HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol, which is just a fancy way of saying it’s a protocol (a language, in a manner of speaking) for data to be passed back and forth between web servers and clients. The important thing is the letter ‘S’ which makes the difference between HTTP and HTTPS. The S (big surprise) stands for “Secure”. If you visit a website or webpage, 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 ‘unsecure’ 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 with https://, which basically means your computer is talking to the website in a secure code that no one can eavesdrop on. You understand why this is so important, right? 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, there’s no way you’re going to enter sensitive information like a credit card number. Remembering a safe confident customer is a repeat customer.
