iOS Question OTA link not usable?

[John Woodsmall]

I do the ota thing:
OTA_Deployer.jar

and I get a string of unknown letters:
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itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.b4x.com%3A51041%2Fota%3Ftype%3Dplist%26guid%3D17759176511012835768_4302%26product%3Dpathfinder%26bundle%3Dcom.astromatch.voice

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I am meant to send this is another person so that they can upload to their iphone? correct?
How do i get these letters to be a url link?

 

[Erel]

Note that you shouldn't post your hosted builder id in the forum. I've removed it.

Copy the whole string exactly as it is and send it inside an email message.

 

[John Woodsmall]

I did as you said and the link is partially high lighted in the iphone email;
as
"itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.b4x.com%3A51"

the other part below is not highlighted:

"041%2Fota%3Ftype%3Dplist%26guid%3D17759176511012835768_4302%26product%3Dpathfinder%26bundle%3Dcom.astromatch.voice"

therefor when i click on it...it tries to send me to www.b4x.com only...

I see that the normal link is converted to hex values...
is there some way to make this work?

it does not work (for me) as is.

above your said send it inside an email message...I just cut and paste it into a simple message??

 

[JanPRO]

When you have a webspace you can do the following:

Create a php file with this content:

<?php
header("Location: itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.b4x.com%3A51041%2Fota%3Ftype%3Dplist%26guid%3D17759176511012835768_4302%26product%3Dpathfinder%26bundle%3Dcom.astromatch.voice");
?>

And send your clients the link to the php file, so they will be forwarded to the url

 

[Erel]

I've tested it with Outlook as the PC mail client and I sent it to the device.

The link arrived properly:

As an alternative you can create a simple html page with this link.

<a href="itms-services://...

 

[igodese]

Hi, I normally use this way <a href="long string">link</a> on my own webserver for sending a simple URL to my testers, but using my newest compilation ipa (today 2017/01/30) the link is working, but the App cannot install. I receive a message like: "Impossibile scaricare App" (Impossible to download App - at this moment it is impossible to download "App name"). Note that the previous App version, just about three days ago, was perfectly lownloaded and installed. Is there something wrong on the https server, or am I doing something wrong ? Thank you.

 

[Erel]

I've just tested it and it works fine here.

Maybe you compiled your app with the wrong provision profile (store instead of ad hoc).