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What is the difference between HTTP and https? The browser prompted "Not secure" to pay attention to, so I grabbed a packet that clearly showed the server version in plaintext
My wife logged into the NAS backend at home, and the screen was filled with "Your connection isn't private," so scared she thought she was being hacked. I used a Python bare socket and caught a packet: the contents on port 80 were even bare in plaintext for the server version, and port 443 only replied with five bytes I couldn't understand. This article explains the differences between HTTP and HTTPS, and how to deal with the three types of security alerts....
