Secure Client

The Secure Client module is used to provide Drupal with configuration settings that can be used to create secure HTTPS connections. For sites running PHP 5.5 this is useful because secure connections may not be created by default, and as a result, Drupal cannot complete certain tasks like checking for module updates or getting feeds from secure URLs. Sites running PHP 5.6 or later use OS-managed certificate authorities by default (except in some Microsoft Windows configurations) and generally do not need to be reconfigured. Additionally, contributed modules are no longer required to implement their own connection settings, which simplifies configuration management for administrators.