Cannot connect to website for iPhone App

Question

I have an iOS Enterprise account. I attached my provision file as a link and also my plist using the itms-services protocol. I'm running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Apache2 server. I already added the Mime types to /etc/mimes.types. When I follow the log I can see the provision gets pulled down, without a problem, and the plist by itself can, but when I use my iPad to pull down the app clicking on items-services protocol link, it doesn't seem to let me download it. It keeps telling me that it can't connect to the URL inside of an iOS pop up box.

I'm using this link (with domain name stubbed out):

<a href="itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=https://server.com/apps/StockCountApp.plist">
            Install Stock Count Application</a>

Here is my plist:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>items</key>
    <array>
            <dict>
                    <key>assets</key>
                    <array>
                            <dict>
                                    <key>kind</key>
                                    <string>software-package</string>
                                    <key>url</key>
                                    <string>https://server.com/apps/StockCountApp.ipa</string>
                            </dict>
                    </array>
                    <key>metadata</key>
                    <dict>
                            <key>bundle-identifier</key>
                            <string>com.server.StockCountApp</string>
                            <key>bundle-version</key>
                            <string>0.0.1</string>
                            <key>kind</key>
                            <string>software</string>
                            <key>title</key>
                            <string>StockCount</string>
                    </dict>
            </dict>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

I can get to the plist using https and i can use the link for the IPA inside of the plist to also get the IPA without a problem, but for some weird reason I can't seem to get the IPA using the itms protocol using an iDevice.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

Your plist and links are correct

Check authentication on your server on this page and plist file request. Because cookies of your browser do not send them to itunes on device. Your plist file must be available without auth.

Answer 2

As @Antaresm said Content-Type MUST be application/xml and NOT text/xml as everyone else says!!