When you see HTTPS in the URL, you are using the SSL/TLS protocol to speak to that website. SSL is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. Remember we said that YouTube is now streaming their media over an HTTPS connection. Let’s say you’ve switched on Replay Media Catcher’s monitoring and you’re happily browsing along and decide to download the latest viral video on YouTube. Pretty slick, right? That’s how Replay Media Catcher can download so much more without browser plugins. As you come across streaming video or music, Replay Media Catcher decodes that network traffic and if it understands what it is seeing on the network, it tries to detect and download the media based on intelligence we’ve written for that protocol. When you switch on Replay Media Catcher, it starts sniffing the network traffic. Let’s first look at how Replay Media Catcher downloads, then we’ll explain how installing the CA Certificate helps it to do it’s job better. When you connect to a website that is using HTTPS, the session is encrypted with a Digital Certificate. Like for ecommerce transactions and such. Typically used when a secure connection is necessary.
So what is HTTPS? Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure is the secure version of http. YouTube and some other sites now stream their media over an HTTPS connection by default. So what’s that all about? Have no fear! We’re here to break it down for you.
And if you like to download streams from YouTube, then you’ve likely seen the new prompt to install a CA certificate. If you’ve installed the most recent version of Replay Media Catcher, you’ll see that we’ve made some great improvements. They like a challenge and frequently whip up very smart solutions to very tough problems. Keeping up with the constant changes in streaming protocols is just the job for Replay Media Catcher‘s Engineers.
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