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Discussion on: What Do Web Developers Need To Know About HTTP/HTTPS?

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Leonardo Teteo • Edited

I think the other answers already talked about you should know about HTTP, but about HTTPS it would be good to know how certificates actually works, how to properly issue one and what you have to do to have the padlock beside your site URL.
One important thing is if your site is delivered through HTTPS, everything must be delivered through HTTPS. Sometimes you will not understand the warnings when one little image is being delivered through HTTP instead of HTTPS. And that HTTP is over port 80 and HTTPS over port 443. ;-)