Editing HTTP (section)

== Encrypted connections ==
The most popular way of establishing an encrypted HTTP connection is [[HTTPS]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Canavan |first=John |title=Fundamentals of Networking Security |year=2001 |publisher=Artech House |location=Norwood, MA |isbn=9781580531764 |pages=82–83}}</ref> Two other methods for establishing an encrypted HTTP connection also exist: [[Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol]], and using the [[HTTP/1.1 Upgrade header]] to specify an upgrade to TLS. Browser support for these two is, however, nearly non-existent.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Zalewski |first1=Michal |title=Browser Security Handbook |url=https://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part1#True_URL_schemes |access-date=30 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Chromium Issue 4527: implement RFC 2817: Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 |url=https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=4527 |access-date=30 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mozilla Bug 276813 – [RFE] Support RFC 2817 / TLS Upgrade for HTTP 1.1 |url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276813 |access-date=30 April 2015}}</ref>