https or http...

The 's' does indeed stand for 'secure'. It is to protect you and the site from hackers 'looking in' as you do your deal. If you have a web site where you are taking money or being sent information by a surfer you are required to purchase a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and operate those transactions under its secure cover. My SSL certificate costs me £110 a year. Apart from the added 's' to http you will see a yellow padlock on the bottom right of your window to tell you that you are on a secure page. All information that goes back and forth from you to the site is encrypted. If you leave off the 's' some sites redirect you to the secure https page, but on other sites you will get an error page like a 404 error page. So use the 's' - it is there for your protection.

usually when the site is really on https but you typed http, the site would route you to the https website. That is because they also bought the name with the http. BUT if it should have https and there isn't it's probably a fraudalent site. trying to copy original site and get information from you and use it for their own gain(this is called spoofing). the rule here is if your giving private information, especially when it's related to bank account numbers such as credit cards and debit cards, the website SHOULD HAVE https, if not, the "hacker" could use your credit card number and buy a lot of things without you knowing it. (this is called identity theft) hope you got this crystal clear.

Absolutely correct. The added 's' refers to security. I'm more at ease and with peace of mind with 'https' when monetary transaction is involved. I suppose that would automatically redirect us from one to another and vice versa.

Yes it should be possible. Accually its the letters in the end of the links, who decides if its a refferal link. Some of them also use www, and others does not - there is no difference.

I think on most sites it would work, but that "s" is there for a reason. I can give you the example of gmail, it uses both https and http but if you login using the http version all your account data won't be secured and it'll be possible to listen to it on its way over the internet. I don't see any benefit on using http over https because https brings you security and that's something you should take an advantage of.

i've been wondering about the same thing too between the http and https. now i'm a bit clear after seeing the other responses. thanks for bringing this up :)

I've also notice about this https or http, some sites actually has and I don't know really why it has "s". And most of the site URL I've been using has without "s" so definitely I don't know about this...if it's a secure site then that would be good!

Why take the risk of losing one valuable referral because of that one letter ??? Don't lose referrals trying to do something new.

The s means also that the page is redirected to a different por the http goes to the port 80 by default and the https to the 443 but mainly is the protocol that is also ssl