Yesterday, when I went to login Clickbank, I got an error message.

It told me that there was a problem with the digital certificate (i.e. what makes the communications between my PC and Clickbank safe). If you get the same message, here is what’s causing it and also some tips on how to avoid this happening in the future.

When this error message appear, the web browser makes the following suggestions.

1.       The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website’s address.

Thanks but that doesn’t help very much, does it?

2.       Security certificate problems may indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server.

A little better but the error message isn’t instilling much confidence in me. The words ‘may indicate an attempt to fool you’ make me feel like Babe before xmas dinner. You need to see the movie.

3.       If you arrived at this page by clicking a link, check the website address in the address bar to be sure that it is the address you were expecting.

If I clicked on a link, then it’s probably the one I was sent or use all the time.

4.      When going to a website with an address such as https://example.com, try adding the ‘www’ to the address, https://www.example.com.

Now, this makes a difference.

What the error message is trying to say is this: entering or using an address without www will (not may) confuse the certificate.

Why does this happen?

Let’s say that when you login Clickbank, you visit five different pages.

Then, the next day, you type Clickbank into the address bar.

Your web browser tries to anticipate the pages you’re going to visit and displays the pages you visited yesterday. You click on the page you want to visit, for example, the monthly reports.

This confuses the digital cert.

It doesn’t know how you got to http//:www.Clickbank.com/whatever/ without authenticating the cert.

Ideally, the page should be https//:www.Clickbank.com/whatever/.
The h in https stands for secure.

How to fix this problem

Enter www.clickbank.com into the address bar and log in as usual.

The certificate will now work correctly and hopefully you’ll sleep a better at night.

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Regards,

Ivan

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