HTTP(Hyper Text Transport Protocol). The website you visit usually have the prefix http:// which means you are visiting a page using the regular 'unsecure' language. (i.e.) in these pages it it possible for others to find what informations you send or submit in a form.
HTTPS where the difference is the S "Secure". This means that you are taken to a page through a secure HTTP which keeps privacy of your informations you submit on this page.
Websites which requires sensitive informations like the credit card number should be necessarily HTTPS to maintain your secracy. So be aware of this protocol HTTPS when you submit your informations for online banking in bank home pages, paypal etc.,
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