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What is SSL certificate? Secure your data

September 18, 2011 Web Tutorials

ssl certificate

The need for a secure system to send and receive data is primordial for any business. To this end, the SSL or Secure Socket Layer protocol was developed. This protocol allows any information sent to or from a browser to be encrypted, and SSL certificates were created to ensure that the company providing the transaction [...]

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HTTP vs HTTPS, What’s the difference

September 12, 2011 Web Tutorials

https-background

HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer) is a secured communication protocol between web browser and web server. You can say it is secured HTTP (think of ā€˜S’ in HTTPS as secured) protocol. It encrypts any communication that a user sends to a web server and decrypts at server side. Similarly, it encrypts any [...]

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URL vs. URI vs. URN, What’s the difference

September 12, 2011 Web Tutorials

clean_urls

URI A URI identifies a resource either by location, or a name, or both. More often than not, most of us use URIs that defines a location to a resource. The fact that a URI can identify a resources by both name and location has lead to a lot of the confusion in my opionion. [...]

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