How to set MIME type of application/vnd.apple.pkpass in order to share pass by link or email

Question

I just created an app and a pass, so I can add the pass to the PassBook in iPod, but I cannot share the pass by email or link from web server. From the documentation I read from Apple, I need to add a MIME type as application/vnd.apple.pkpass. However, I don't understand clearly what steps should I do. I don't know how to use MIME type.

How should I add this MIME type in order to use pass from my web service?

Answer 1

Apache

Add the following line to either:

• the .htaccess in the directory serving your .pkpass, or
• to the mime.types file, or
• to your appache httpd.conf or virtuatl server .conf file

Then restart Apache (not required if adding to .htaccess)

AddType application/vnd.apple.pkpass    pkpass

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nginx

Add the following line to your mime.types file and restart nginx

application/vnd.apple.pkpass    pkpass;

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IIS

1. Open IIS Manager and navigate to the level you want to manage.
2. In Features View, double-click MIME Types.
3. In the Actions pane, click Add.
4. In the Add MIME Type .pkpass
5. Type application.vnd.pkpass n the MIME text box
6. Click OK
7. Restart IIS

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If you are serving your file via a script and are not able to edit your web server config you could add the following line before any content is sent:

PHP

header('Content-Type: application/vnd.apple.pkpass');

C#

WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/vnd.apple.pkpass");

Answer 2

For a pure PHP solution, add your .pkpass bundle to the server, then create the following file and name this file pass.php.

<?php   
$pkpass_file = '/path/to/your/.pkpass/file/GenericMemberCard.pkpass';

header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Content-Type: application/vnd.apple.pkpass");
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pass.pkpass"');
clearstatcache();
$filesize = filesize($pkpass_file);
if ($filesize)
    header("Content-Length: ". $filesize);
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
if (filemtime($pkpass_file)) {
    date_default_timezone_set("UTC");
    header('Last-Modified: ' . date("D, d M Y H:i:s", filemtime($pkpass_file)) . ' GMT');
}
flush();
readfile($pkpass_file);

Then create a second file linking to the file you created above.

<a href="pass.php">Click to download your pass</a>

Answer 3

Through Windows 10 IIS

1. Open IIS Manager and navigate to the level you want to manage.
2. In Features View, double-click MIME Types.
3. In the Actions pane, click Add.
4. In the Add MIME Type .pkpass
5. Type application.vnd.pkpass n the MIME text box
6. Click OK
7. Restart IIS

Answer 4

Any one still struggling with IIS. For IIS the suggest types here are wrong IIS expects xx/xxxxxx so this is what the correct one would look like in IIS.