Why are my links to posts giving me warnings about ssl error?
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I am trying to open links to posts and getting warnings about ssl error. the message states that I’ve reached a server identifying itself as *.wordpress.com and there could be a hacker on the site trying to get me to visit a fake and harmful version of jitterycook.com
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
That is actually very standard behavior and is a bit misguided (sorry about the scare!). Please note that only you and other registered users of the blog will see it when logged in.
When you connect to your Dashboard over an HTTPS connection, we use an SSL certificate to encrypt your connection. SSL certificates need to be signed to a specific domain, and we can’t provide certificates for every mapped domain, so our certificate is signed for WordPress.com.
When you connect to your Dashboard via your own domain but your security software sees a certificate signed to http://wordpress.com/ it’s altering you that WordPress.com may be intercepting your connection, which of course is perfectly fine.
To prevent your readers running into this in their browsers, just make sure that whenever you provide a link to your blog or post it anywhere, that you post it as http:// and not https://.
You can read more about this here.
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Thanks, I think. I do feel reassured.
This info goes way over my head. I’ll be at the wordpress conference next weekend so I’ll have someone at the happy bar run through it with me. Meanwhile, can I just click on proceed anyway?
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Hiya,
You can indeed, though the important part is that you just need to make sure that when you give out links you just need to make sure that you’re only giving them out with “http” instead of “https.” It will stop others from worrying too!
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