Joke's on you. Once spent a whole morning failing to obtain a signed SSL certificate from one of the certificate authorities. The field description in a web for

Joke's on you. Once spent a whole morning failing to obtain a signed SSL certificate from one of the certificate authorities. The field description in a web form was clearly stating to enter the FQDN, yet the form was not passing through with a very general error description (it appeared later that the URL with a dot at the end was not validating, someone copy-pasted a regex of an URL?). On help request, the IT operations guys looked with disdain at the webdev unable to produce "a stupid certificate". The disadvantages of reading the instructions and field hints ¯\_(ツ)_/¯