iOS Question Loading a file from a WebSite

[RVP]

I want to be able to provide a number of files which users can select and then load into my app. My app defines the extensions it can load and this works fine if a file with that extension is emailed to a user, they get the option to open it in the app. What I now want to do, is allow them to go to my web site and download files and open them in the app. However when I test a link I have embedded in my site Safari downloads it, and then just displays its contents (which text JSON). If I select the share icon I do not get my app as an option to share the file with. How can I set this up to work?

 

[Erel]

Why not download it from your app directly with iHttpUtils2?

 

[RVP]

I am using this to allow the user to select what data they want to have on their device, there is a file for each set of data, and there will be additional files being added on a regular basis. Also users will be able to send me a file of data that they have entered into the app, that they are willing to share with other users and that file will then get posted on the web site. So it seemed easiest to simply have a page on the web site, where they could download a file.

 

[Erel]

You need to configure the server to return the correct mime type for that file. It should probably be: application/octet-stream