HTTPS POST request (java) to a website (php), how to work with data from it?

Question

This is more of a theoretical question, because at the moment I don't have a way to try it out on myself and I can not google the result somehow.

I will have https secured website and from my Java application I will be sending POST request to that site. I suppose that the request will be encrypted and POST data will not be in a format readable to human.

Do I get those data in unreadable format and it is up to me to decode it back in my php application? And if not, how it works then?

Answer 1

HTTPS is a transport layer security, which means it transparently encrypts/decripts your messages.

So you will have nothing to do to encode/decode the data.

What you will have to do is handling the SSL certificate correctly on establishing the HTTPS connection.