Do you need SSL to send a message to a bot?

Question

PHP

Hello!
To send an application from a site to a telegram bot, do I need ssl on the site?
Somewhere it is written that it is needed, somewhere it is not. As far as I understood earlier, ssl was not needed, but now it is needed.

There are 2 options to find out:
the first is to check it yourself, the second is to ask someone who knows)
As you can see, I’m here) The bot does not work on my host (I don’t have ssl), it gives an error something related to ssl.
Does anyone know if there is such a topic?

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Answer 1

Well, if he swears at his absence, then he is needed. Yes, even without SSL it is somehow dangerous, anything can be wedged into the traffic (with SSL - they can only block, but not change).