what is ssl?????

Question

Can a website using SSL know what computer was used after submiting or even before submiting something? Please dont be confusing, simple explanations would be helpful!

Answer 1

The website will know, because it has logging and keeps track of connections. Nobody between your computer and the website will have any idea what is being passed between the two, since SSL encrypts (or garbles) the traffic from everybody but your computer and that website.

Answer 2

Short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data − a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers.By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http:.

Answer 3

Since this question is in the programming and design category, it is assumed that you don't mean SSL used in encryption of data, but instead are talking about the scripting language. So here goes:



"Server-side scripting is a web server technology in which a user's request is fulfilled by running a script directly on the web server to generate dynamic HTML pages."



Whenever you use Internet Explorer or Firefox web browser, you connect your local computer (called a client) to a webpage (called a server). Webpages are filled with text, but also have a certain dynamic to them like real-time stock quotes that are constantly refreshed (changed). This dynamic changing of content requires programming. Sometimes these programs work on your computer (client) and other times they run on the actual server. SSL (server side language) is the scripting language that runs programs on the actual webpage server.

Answer 4

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