Daily Archive: September 19, 2017

hsts 520x245 - How to Setup HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) for Apache 0

How to Setup HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) for Apache

HTTP Strict Transport Security, widely known as HSTS, is a web security policy mechanism in which website tells the browser that it should only be communicated using HTTPS, instead of using HTTP Protocol. This is achieved using an HSTS response header sent at the very beginning to the browser. The question which arises here is, why we want our website to communicate only over HTTPS Protocol??? HTTP stands for HyperText Transport Protocol, Which is just...