How to Secure a Web Site Security is a very important aspect for
any developer of ecommerce web sites. To secure a web site, we
must make sure that private data that's sent between the client
and server can't be deciphered. To accomplish that, we use an
Internet Protocol called SSL (Secure Socket Layer). Its an
important protocol that lets you transmit data over the internet
using data encryption. How Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
connections Work: SSL is the protocol used by the world wide web
that allows clients and servers to communicate over a secure
connection. With SSL, the browser encrypts all data that's sent
to the server and decrypts all data that's received from the
server. Conversely, the server encrypts all data that's sent to
the browser and decrypts all data that's received from the SSL
is able to determine if data has been tampered with during
transmit and verify that a server or a client is who claims to
be. To to determine if you're transmitting data over a secure
connection, you can read the U