Protection Against Tapping and Forging of the Data Stream
Data transfer must also be encoded, so that a potential intruder cannot access the data while it is in transit between client and server. Standard procedures exist for this, such as secure HTTP (HTTPS). HTTPS encoding is usually implemented between the client and the server and is not part of the SAP HTTP Content Server interface.
Signed URLs can slow down performance, as it takes increased processing power to create the signature.