i do not have good understanding about how SSL and Certificates work between server & browser. so i got a little write up on this from this site http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SSL-Certificates-HOWTO/x64.html whatever they said not very clear to me
1) A browser requests a secure page (usually https://).
2) The web server sends its public key with its certificate.
3) The browser checks that the certificate was issued by a trusted party
(usually a trusted root CA), that the certificate is still valid and that the
certificate is related to the site contacted.
4) The browser then uses the public key, to encrypt a random symmetric
encryption key and sends it to the server with the encrypted URL required
as well as other encrypted http data.
5) The web server decrypts the symmetric encryption key using
its private key and uses the symmetric key to decrypt the URL and http data.
6) The web server sends back the requested html document and
http data encrypted with the symmetric key.
7) The browser decrypts the http data and html document using
the symmetric key and displays the information.
browser request a secure page and web server just send the public key with certificate with no page or data to browser?
if possible please discuss point regarding what happen when browser request any https page. thanks
TLS handshake happens (and is complete) before any HTTP requests are sent. And the handshake involves several messages being sent between the client and the server and back.
Here's more detailed description of SSL/TLS handshake.
So any HTTP requests are sent only after the SSL/TLS layer is ready. Doing otherwise would impose a security risk.