What does HTTP stands for ?

Indonesia
January 8, 2007 1:05am CST
I see it everyday, but I dunno what it is ? And what is the differrent with HTTPS ?
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Gruzzle
@Gruzzle (294)
•
8 Jan 07
HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. HTTPS is the secure version - that is if anyone intercepts your connection while using https they cannot view the content. That is why they use https for merchant sites that take card payments.
mwenceslao
@mwenceslao (409)
• United States
11 Jan 07
To add up HyperText Transfer Protocol or HTTP passes on port 80 while HTTPS passes on port 443. S stands for secured connection and all data that passes to this protocol are encrypted. So if someone is sniffing on your connection they wont be easily reading text transmission since your transmitted data will be encrypted.
ritwikghoshal
@ritwikghoshal (405)
• India
12 May 07
hyper text transfer protocol.
sreejithsreenivas
@sreejithsreenivas (10200)
• India
12 Jan 07
It is hyper text transfer protocol for web page access.
Kunal Vijan
@kunalvijan (3411)
• India
11 Jan 07
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol