The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection

June 11, 2009 – 8:21 AM

Here is a great post from Jeff Moser over at Moserware that gives you a detailed walk-through of what exactly happens when you make an https connection to a server (in this example: amazon.com). So much more happens than just the URL changing from http to https and a padlock icon appearing on your browser.  🙂

Read and be amazed:
http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html