HTTP is the English acronym for HiperText Transfer Protocol (in Spanish, hypertext transfer protocol). It is a network protocol (a protocol can be defined as a set of rules to follow) that is used to publish web pages or HTML. HTTP is the foundation on which the Internet or the WWW is based.
How the HTTP protocol works
The HTTP protocol works through requests and responses between a client (for example an Internet browser) and a server (for example the computer where web pages reside). A sequence of these requests is known as an HTTP session.
A client sends a request to the server (known as http request). The server responds to the client (http response) with information, which can be HTML code, an image or something else that the client knows how to interpret. When you visit a page using your Internet browser, you are using an http session to get everything you see as a final result: HTML code, images, JavaScript code, etc.
The URI (better known as URL) that the Internet browser shows in the so-called “navigation bar” begins with http, which is indicating that the http protocol is being used to show you the page you are visiting.
Secure HTTPS sessions
When a URI starts with HTTPS instead of HTTP, it means that the browser is using a secure scheme to protect the information being transferred. This HTTPS scheme is what every commercial transaction on the Internet should use. This scheme is known as TSL.
A secure session differs from a non-secure one in that the secure session adds cryptography to encode the transmitted information, so that if someone intercepts the communication the content of the messages cannot be decrypted without having the correct keys.
Another aspect of a secure session is that during it certificates are used to ensure that the communication is being established with who it should, thus avoiding an imposter intermediary that intercepts the communication.
More and more pages on the Internet are using secure connections (HTTPS). Towards the end of 2015, almost a third of the most popular web pages have a secure version. It is for this reason that in CUERNOSOFT STUDIO we decided to change the HTTP protocol to HTTPS of our website and the sites that we will be developing from 2019 since we will guarantee the security of our clients and their users.
