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HTTPS - a secure implementation of HTTP that tunnels HTTP traffic through an encrypted SSL layer.

When you interact with an HTTPS web page, you're still interacting using HTTP protocol - but HTTPS wraps that traffic and sends it through a trusted SSL connection between you and the endpoint.

This is what those green locks in the upper left corner of the browser are all about.