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Cannot access a website

Both my husband and myself have IPhone 5C’s and iPad-4th generation. He recently created a website through Go-Daddy and Wix but we cannot access the website on any of our pieces of equipment. However, our daughter has an IPhone XR and iPad-pro and she can. Why?

iPad, 10

Posted on Feb 20, 2019 5:54 AM

20 replies

Feb 21, 2019 12:10 PM in response to Lindalap

Did you try clearing history and website data? Tap Settings - Safari - Clear history and website data. Retry accessing the site.


So you have no problem accessing the website with iPad Air (I assume it is running iOS 11 or 12) but iOS 10 devices can't access the website. This sounds like digital certificate trust issue. Perhaps iOS 10 does not have the root certificate in its certificate store.

Feb 21, 2019 12:31 PM in response to Lindalap

Try another third party Web browser, instead.

Here are a few, more popular, third party web browsers that I know are STILL being updated and supported on iOS 10 and earlier.


Firefox Web browser

Google Chrome browser

iCab Mobile Web browser

Dolphin Web browser

Dolphin Incognito Web browser

DuckDuckGo private Web browxer

Snow Bunny Web browser

Private Browsing Web browser

Aloha Web browser

Maxthon Web browser


Good Luck to You!


Feb 22, 2019 10:35 AM in response to MichelPM

I suspect the webserver ran into a problem during SSL/TLS handshake. It is supposed to send an intermediate SSL certificate (issued by Sectigo) to the client (Safari browser) to complete the certificate chain. It failed to do that and ergo.. the error message you saw (or a blank screen when it timed out).

Feb 20, 2019 8:42 AM in response to Lindalap

Does "can not access" mean the website does not exist when you visit it? You just wait and wait until it times out and the browser stops trying, is that correct? Do you all (you both and your daughter) access the internet the same way (thru the same WiFi access point)? Can you tell us the web address?

Feb 21, 2019 12:27 PM in response to ShagCA

My iPad Pro is running iOS 10.3.3.

Like I said, the first few times I put the link in ( no, I didn't copy the period at the end of the link ) it didn't load and I got the Secure Socket Layer error message.

I then quit and re-launched my third party Web browser and that time, the link loaded.

The link has a menu at the top of the Website, then follows an image of a male lawyer with address and contact info next to the image and other info as you scroll down.

Then a bunch of info about this lawyer in front of an ocean shore background.

Then the very bottom of the Website has a contact info form to fill in.

The Website has a lot of different web design features and effects going on.

It did finally load into my Web browser on my iPad Pro running iOS 10.3.3.

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