Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure—The protocol used by browsers to communicate to web servers securely. The security is done with similarly to SSH. The transfer uses FTP like commands, but only one connection. Since HTTP 1.1 it is also possible to reuse the same connection for multiple files (pages, images, videos, etc.)

In networking, a proxy is an intermediate network connection used to hide a user or computer. Most large companies use multiple proxies to hide all of their different intranets. Technically, when using a proxy you actually send all your network data to that other computer and that computer is in charge of sending that data outside your organization. Very large companies generally have multiple levels of proxies.