Using HTTPS to encrypt communication |
HTTPS is a combination of Hypertext Transfer Protocol and SSL/TLS to provide encrypted communications and network server identity identification.
Compared with HTTP, HTTPS is more secure. In HTTP, the information is clear text, so it is easy to leak. But HTTPS encrypts all information, including headers and loads.
For Tomcat, there are two ways of SSL:
For more, see http://tomcat.apache.org