The HTTPS protocol is a combination of HTTP + SSL/TLS, and HTTP is the protocol used to obtain information from the World Wide Web server, so let’s start with the World Wide Web.
The World Wide Web and HTTP
The World Wide Web (WWW) is not a special kind of computer network. The World Wide Web is a large-scale, online information repository, referred to as the web in English. The World Wide Web uses links to make it very convenient to access another site from one site on the Internet.
Every site on the World Wide Web contains many docs. The text in some of these docs is displayed in a special way. When we move the mouse over these places, the mouse arrow changes into the shape of a hand, which indicates that there is a link here. If we click on these links, we can link from this doc to another doc that may be far away.
It is precisely because of the emergence of the Internet that the Internet has changed from being used by a few computer experts to being used by ordinary people.
We usually open web pages from the browser to obtain information from the World Wide Web server, using the HTTP protocol. But when we go to play LOL, the communication between the Client and the server can not be HTTP protocol.
The World Wide Web is a distributed hypermedia. It is an extension of the hypertext system. The so-called hypertext refers to the text that contains links to other docs. A hypertext is made up of multiple sources of information that are distributed around the world.
** The Client program of the World Wide Web is the browser **, and the host where the World Wide Web doc is stored is the World Wide Web server, which runs the World Wide Web server program. ** The client program sends a request to the server program, and the server program sends the World Wide Web doc required by the client program **. The World Wide Web doc displayed in the browser is called a page.