Logically, it follows that a user should trust an HTTPS connection to a website if and only if all of the following are true:

* An HTTP status code indicating that a client should switch protocols ( e. g. to HTTPS ).

Some software may be bypassed successfully by using alternative protocols such as FTP or telnet or HTTPS, conducting searches in a different language, using a proxy server or a circumventor such as Psiphon.

Because HTTPS piggybacks HTTP entirely on top of TLS, the entirety of the underlying HTTP protocol can be encrypted.

A site must be completely hosted over HTTPS, without having some of its contents loaded over HTTP, or the user will be vulnerable to some attacks and surveillance.

A common misconception is that HTTPS is performance heavy and cannot be deployed on existing equipment.

Firefox utilizes HTTPS for Google searches as of version 14, to " shield our users from network infrastructure that may be gathering data about the users or modifying / censoring their search results ".

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, opining that " In an ideal world, every web request could be defaulted to HTTPS ", has provided an add-on called HTTPS Everywhere for Mozilla Firefox that enables HTTPS by default for hundreds of frequently used websites.

SOAP may also be used over HTTPS ( which is the same protocol as HTTP at the application level, but uses an encrypted transport protocol underneath ) with either simple or mutual authentication ; this is the advocated WS-I method to provide web service security as stated in the WS-I Basic Profile 1. 1.

Load balancing can be performed on HTTP, HTTPS, VPN, or any TCP / IP traffic using a specific port.

One limitation of EV as a solution to the weaknesses of domain validation is that attackers could still obtain a domain validated certificate for the victim domain, and deploy it during an attack ; if that occurred, the only difference observable to the victim user would be a blue HTTPS address bar rather than a green one.

The Web Interface client may be used as a secure ICA proxy over HTTPS when combined with Citrix Secure Gateway, both of which are included in the base XenApp product.

The protocol has been adopted by a number of domain name registries, such as:. ke,. ac,. aero,. ag,. asia,. at,. au,. be,. biz,. br,. bz,. ca,. cat,. cc,. ch,. cl,. cn,. co,. cz,. com,. coop,. cx,. cz,. es ( over HTTPS ),. eu,. fm,. fr,. gr ( over HTTPS ),. gs,. hn,. ht,. im,. in,. info,. io,. it ( over HTTPS ),. jobs,. ki,. kz,. la,. lc,. li,. lt,. lu,. me,. mn,. mobi,. ms,. mu,. mx,. na,. name,. net,. nf,. ng,. nl,. no,. nu,. nz ( currently in testing ),. org,. pl ( over HTTPS ),. pro,. pt,. ru,. sc,. se,. sh,. si,. su,. tel,. tl,. tm,. travel,. tv,. tw,. uk,. us,. ir,. vc,. ve and. za as well as ENUM registries such as those operating the + 31, + 41, + 43, + 44 and + 48 country codes.

* Microsoft Message Queuing on Windows Server 2003 utilises pipelining on HTTP by default, and can be configured to use it on HTTPS.

* When browsing a secure HTTPS web site, web browsers commonly require that all elements of a web page be downloaded over secure connections, or the user will be notified of reduced security due to a mixture of secure and insecure elements.

The new architecture is implemented using the Indy TCP framework which can be used with HTTPS and SSL.

That content is retrieved by the gateway using HTTP and compressed into WBXML, in order to perform that compression the gateway must be able to handle the WML in cleartext, so even if there is encryption between the client and the gateway ( using WTLS ) and between the gateway and the originating server ( using HTTPS ) the gateway acts as a man-in-the-middle.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure ( HTTPS ) is a widely used communications protocol for secure communication over a computer network, with especially wide deployment on the Internet.

In its popular deployment on the internet, HTTPS provides authentication of the web site and associated web server that one is communicating with, which protects against Man-in-the-middle attacks.

if the user first accesses the front page of the website with HTTP where he only after that clicks an HTTPS link to the log-in page, the session has already been compromised.

On a site that has sensitive information somewhere on it, every time that site is accessed with HTTP instead of HTTPS, the user and the session will get exposed.

It is recommended to use HTTP Strict Transport Security with HTTPS to protect users from man-in-the-middle attacks.

# The user trusts that the browser software correctly implements HTTPS with correctly pre-installed certificate authorities.

HTTPS URLs begin with " https ://" and use port 443 by default, whereas HTTP URLs begin with " http ://" and use port 80 by default.

HTTPS is designed to withstand such attacks and is considered secure against such attacks ( with the exception of older deprecated versions of SSL ).

This means that, in most cases, it is not feasible to use name-based virtual hosting with HTTPS.

Originally, HTTPS was used with SSL protocol.

Webpages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), which may optionally employ encryption ( HTTP Secure, HTTPS ) to provide security and privacy for the user of the webpage content.

It uses SSL / TLS to protect communications with web servers using strong cryptography when using the HTTPS protocol.

Any ( web mail or other ) mail system which stores and retains user's email contents is an attractive target for such attacks, but Gmail is popular with security-conscious users because of its early HTTPS secure ( encrypted ) connection support, and its more-recent HTTPS-only default setting.

This LDAP and LDAPS key server ( which also spoke HKP for backwards compatibility, though the protocol was ( arguably correctly ) referred to as “ HTTP ” or “ HTTPS ”) also formed the basis for the PGP Administration tools for private key servers in corporate settings, along with a schema for Netscape Directory Server.

GUI administration was introduced with version 4. 1, and it has been through several incarnations: PIX Firewall Manager ( PFM ) for PIX OS versions 4. x and 5. x, which runs locally on a Windows NT client ; PIX Device Manager ( PDM ) for PIX OS version 6. x, which runs over https and requires Java ; and Adaptive Security Device Manager ( ASDM ) for PIX OS version 7 and greater, which can run locally on a client or in reduced-functionality mode over HTTPS.

If it does the address on the credit card information entry screen will start with " HTTPS ".

While it could add security to any protocol that uses reliable connections, such as TCP, it was most commonly used by Netscape with HTTP to form HTTPS.

* Public key authentication ( usually implemented with HTTPS / SSL client certificates ).

These weak cleartext protocols used together with HTTPS network encryption resolve many of the threats that digest access authentication is designed to prevent.

The HTTPS process then starts, connecting to login. yahoo. com, and sending the token_get string that is constructed with the username and password of the account the client is trying to log in with.

* Secure Remote Password protocol ( preferably within the HTTPS / TLS layer ).

* AS2 messages are always sent using the HTTP or HTTPS protocol ( Secure Sockets Layer — also known as SSL — is implied by HTTPS ) and usually use the " POST " method ( use of " GET " is rare ).

; < span id =" CONNECT "> CONNECT </ span >: Converts the request connection to a transparent TCP / IP tunnel, usually to facilitate SSL-encrypted communication ( HTTPS ) through an unencrypted HTTP proxy.

Also having only a certain page that contains sensitive information ( such as a log-in page ) of a website loaded over HTTPS, while having the rest of the website loaded over plain HTTP will expose the user to attacks.

HTTPS is a URI scheme which has identical syntax to the standard HTTP scheme, aside from its scheme token.

Strictly speaking, HTTPS is not a separate protocol, but refers to use of ordinary HTTP over an encrypted SSL / TLS connection.

This type of attack defeats the security provided by HTTPS by changing the < tt > https :</ tt > link into an < tt > http :</ tt > link, taking advantage of the fact that few Internet users actually type " https " into their browser interface: they get to a secure site by clicking on a link, and thus are fooled into thinking that they are using HTTPS when in fact they are using HTTP.

* HTTP versus HTTPS, a clear explanation

These components consist of networking protocol stacks like CAN, TCP / IP, FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS, and also included storage capabilities like FAT and flash memory management systems.

When a Load Balancer terminates the SSL connections the requests are converted from HTTPS to HTTP in the Load Balancer before being passed to the Web Server.

* Content-aware switching: most load balancers can send requests to different servers based on the URL being requested, assuming the request is not encrypted ( HTTP ) or if it is encrypted ( via HTTPS ) that the HTTPS request is terminated ( decrypted ) at the load balancer.

* wsniff-A tool for 802. 11 HTTP / HTTPS based MITM attacks

A prominent use of TLS is for securing World Wide Web traffic carried by HTTP to form HTTPS.

Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other protocols including TLS, SSL, Internet Gopher and HTTPS.