(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)
