Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development

Implementing HTTPS Servers and Clients

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a communications protocol that provides secure communication between HTTP clients and servers. HTTPS is really just HTTP running on top of the Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL) protocol, which is where it gets its security capabilities. HTTPS provides security in two main ways. First, it uses long-term public and secret keys to exchange a short-term session key so that data can be encrypted between client and server. It also provides authentication so that you can ensure that the webserver you are connecting to is the one you actually think it is, thus preventing man-in-the-middle attacks, in which requests are rerouted through a third ...