apple-app-site-association downloaded but not responding (universal links)

Hello Apple community,


Im in a rut. Worked on universal links for almost a week. Ive followed allt he documentation including:

- placing the apple-app-site-association file at root of my web server and .well-known.

- Made the content serve type as application/json.

- Serve MIME type application/json

- removed file extension

- served over https

- running off iOS 11.3 so no required to sign the file

- verified that my json is correct using a validator

- made my paths [*] so it responds to all url paths

- added my associated domains to xcode capabilities

- added applinks: {mydomain}.ca & applinks: www.{mydomain}.ca

- I used apple deep link validator which reports that no app Id found. Online users report that this is normal for apps not yet in the store. I think it is ridiculous that the validation tool would only work for apps in the store but whatever.


I watched my device logs in xcode and I saw that the applinks was added to device. Device shows: 'Added service 'applinks', appId 'XXXX', domain '{mydomain}'.


I wrote the link out in Notes app then long pressed and safari opens.


A few more details: my site is served off an s3 bucket which is served from cloudfront. I am using amazon certificate for https.


Not sure what else I can say, I think I covered it pretty well. Im going crazy, what else could it be?


any help outside the above is appreciated


Cheers

did you find any working solution for this, getting the same issue with iOS 14.*

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