February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
426 pages
10h 25m
English
Any website or web application that manages any kind of sensitive or personally identifiable information (names, phone numbers, addresses, health; credit; or tax records, credit card and bank account information, and so on) needs to implement a mechanism to protect the information on its way from client to server and vice versa.
HTTP was born as a cleartext protocol. As such, it doesn't include mechanisms to protect the information exchanged by the client and server from being viewed and/or modified by a third party that manages to intercept it. As a workaround to this problem, an encrypted communication channel is created between the client and server, and HTTP packets are sent through it. HTTPS ...
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