HTTP is how web pages are delivered to web browsers. It is a protocol, or system used to create the World Wide Web. HTTP means
Hyper
Text
Transfer
Protocol.
If you look at the contents of the location bar in your web browser, it usually starts with either HTTP:// or HTTPS://. The first is the original, insecure standard. It has been superseded by the secure HTTPS protocol that encrypts anything you might enter into a form, including usernames and passwords.
Most up to date browsers will warn you if you are visiting a website that is using HTTP and not HTTPS. This is for your own safety. Snoopy neighbors or people in coffee shops on the same wireless network could be up to no good and be running "sniffers" on wireless traffic in the hopes somebody is browsing an unencrypted website and entering a user name and password. If they capture your transaction, they get the keys to whatever website you happened to be on.
If you followed an old, now outdated bookmark to our forum, it may have been HTTP only. Since that is insecure and you are looking at a login box, the browser is warning you that something could go wrong if you log into that form. Instead, type HTTPS, or just add the "s" after http, before the colon, in the location bar near the top of the browser. The correct URL should start with this:
