SHTTP

SHTTP

Secure Hypertext Transmission Protocol (Secure-HTTP). An extended version of HTTP providing security through encryption.

SHTTP encrypts data transfers, but does not authenticate the client. The responsibility for authentication remains with the website (i.e. the responsibility for determining whether the visitor should be shown the information in the first place).

cf HTTPS.

For more information see:

• www.homeport.org/~adam/shttp.html - An overview of SHTTP.
• http://rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2660.txt - HTTPS is defined by RFC 2660.