(HTTPS) A variant of HTTP used by Netscape for handling secure transactions.The Netscape Navigator supports a URLaccess method, "https", for connecting to HTTPservers using SSL."https" is a unique protocol that is simply SSL underneath HTTP.You need to use "https://" for HTTP URLs with SSL, whereas you continue to use "http://" for HTTP URLs without SSL.The default "https" port number is 443, as assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority..(1995-01-16)