Question

Imagine you are a web developer for a small locally owned business. Explain when using HTTP would be satisfactory and why, and when you should use HTTPS and why.

Answer 1

This question is related to which protocol would be more secure for the business. It is HTTPS.

Step-by-step explanation

When a website uses Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure, the HTTPS, it means you have secure transfer. Using HTTPS, computers agree on a code bettween them and then they mixed the messages by using this code, so that no one in between is capable of reading them. This keeps your client's information safe from others. They use the code on a secure sockets layer, the SSL. It may be called Transport Layer Security (TLS) as well, to send the information back and forth.

The Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, the HTTP, on the other hand, is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

Basically, HTTP is the protocol to exchange or transfer hypertext. It is different from normal text transfer, when you have links of other pages in text of articles. It is the basic protocol for transferring from client to server end, however you do not have any security.

So, the best choice for the client is to delevop the website with Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure, to ensure that his information is secure, no matter how small locally the business is.