&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail; &Ferdinand.Gassauer; &Ferdinand.Gassauer.mail; &tde-authors; http is the HyperText Transfer Protocol. The http tdeioslave is used by all &tde; applications to handle connections to http servers, that is, web servers. The most common usage is to view web pages in the &konqueror; web browser. You can use the http tdeioslave in &konqueror; by giving it a URL, such as http://www.trinitydesktop.org. HTTPS is HTTP encapsulated in an SSL/TLS stream. SSL is the Secure Sockets Layer protocol, a security protocol that provides communications privacy over the Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery. TLS stands for Transport Layer Security Read the man page: http.