Passbook pkpass files are not detected

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I have book my itinerary and the travel website delivered the ticket along with the pkpassfiles. Unfortunately neither Safari nor Chrome detects it and show the option to open in passbook application. It shows options like FileApp/CHM reader etc. How to solve this?

I use default Gmail iOS App/Safari for opening opening mails (It's a gmail server)

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The server is not offering up the passbook file as the appropriate mime-type. - Petesh
I found a work around by opening this in the default mail app. I was trying from Gmail, Safari and neither of these had helped. - sarat

1 Answers

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As Petesh menions, your server is not serving the file a mime type of application/vnd.apple.pkpass.

If using Apache, try adding the following to your .htaccess file or server .conf

AddType application/vnd.apple.pkpass    .pkpass

If you are generating the .pkpass files manually, you can set the content header when serving the file. E.g. for PHP you can use:

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