We are facing an issue while deployment of our enterprise iOS application. We are following the documentation from Apple link - https://help.apple.com/deployment/ios/#/apda0e3426d7
We have followed the below steps,
• Created an ipa with our enterprise app provisioning profile.
• Created a manifest file that points to ipa and png files
• Created an html with hyperlink to - itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https://location.company.com/sites/mobile/Files/Mobile/deploy/manifest.plist
Hosted the html, ipa, manifest and png files in a folder in the server https://location.company.com.
The following mime type is in the web server
.plist -> application/xml
.ipa -> application/octet-stream
We instructed our employees to access the download page, in the following way,
1. Open https://location.company.com. It will as for userid and password. Need to login.
2. Display a page which have install app link.
3. Tap on the link to install the app.
When I trying to click on the link, I am getting an error:
Cannot connect to <>
I tried to download the plist file from my iOS browser. It is working fine.
The device log in the Xcode shows, the below log.
> Jun 23 15:17:15 TOM-iPhone itunesstored[106] : Could not load download
> manifest with underlying error: Error Domain=SSErrorDomain Code=2
> "Cannot connect to iTunes Store"
> UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Cannot connect to iTunes Store}
I have checked with our IT team and confirmed that the certificates are valid.
But it is worked when I moved the plist, ipa and png files to dropbox and the link is
itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/55yozabctc2npd6/manifest.plist
Only difference between these two what I feel is iTunes can access the link https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/55yozabctc2npd6/manifest.plist directly. But iTunes cannot directly access the link - https://location.company.com/sites/mobile/Files/Mobile/deploy/manifest.plist, as it has an authentication page in between. That means if I open a fresh browser and try to open link - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/55yozabctc2npd6/manifest.plist, it download the file in my iPhone browser. But if I try the same with the link https://location.company.com/sites/mobile/Files/Mobile/deploy/manifest.plist it ask me for user name and password.
Any help much appreciated.