{"id":1856,"date":"2020-06-08T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T02:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1856"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:10:30","slug":"ssl-purposes","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/ssl-purposes","title":{"rendered":"SSL purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thimpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/what-is-an-ssl-certificate.webp\" alt=\"SSL purposes\" width=\"570\" height=\"298\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">SSL purposes<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you are creating a web-based form where you want the visitor to enter data and submit the form. To the web server for processing, you may want to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/learning\/ssl\/what-is-ssl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SSL<\/a> (secure socket layer) encryption service. This is especially true if you are entering credit card numbers or other sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"word\">As\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">data\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">is\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">transmitted\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">from\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">browser\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">of\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">user\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">to\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">web\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">server\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">when\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">using\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">SSL\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">software.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">All\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">shape\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">data\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">is\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">encrypted.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">When\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">downloaded\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">on\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">web\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">server,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">it\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">will\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">be\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"word\">decrypted au<\/span><span class=\"word\">tomatically.\u00a0<\/span>And you can then store it or process it as usual on the web server.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSL purposes If you are creating a web-based form where you want the visitor to enter data and submit the form. To the web server for processing, you may want to use SSL (secure socket layer) encryption service. This is especially true if you are entering credit card numbers or other sensitive information. As\u00a0data\u00a0is\u00a0transmitted\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0browser\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0user\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0web\u00a0server\u00a0when\u00a0using\u00a0SSL\u00a0software.\u00a0All\u00a0the\u00a0shape\u00a0data\u00a0is\u00a0encrypted.\u00a0When\u00a0downloaded\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0web\u00a0server,\u00a0it\u00a0will\u00a0be\u00a0decrypted automatically.\u00a0And you can then store it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[47],"kbtag":[1131],"class_list":["post-1856","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-ssl","kbtag-ssl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5911,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1856\/revisions\/5911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}