Secure HTTP Requests
A Secure HTTP request is basically a typical HTTP request that uses a special request method, Secure, and includes the original HTTP request in encrypted format as the content. Secure HTTP can be visualized as a wrapper for HTTP, as illustrated in Figure 20.1.
Figure 20.1. Secure HTTP is a wrapper for HTTP.
The content of the Secure HTTP message (the original HTTP message) is protected with a cryptographic protocol. This is usually CMS, Cryptographic Message Syntax. Consider the following HTTP request:
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: httphandbook.org
An example Secure HTTP request that protects this request is as follows (content ...
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