What Is HTTP & HTTPS ? (opens in new tab)

Every time you open a browser and visit a website, something invisible but essential happens in the background — your browser and the server are having a conversation. The rules that govern that conversation are called HTTP. And when that conversation needs to be private, we add a layer of security on top, giving us HTTPS. This is the foundation every web developer should understand before writing a single line of backend code. What Is HTTP? HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. It is ...