Problem We have successfully set up push notifications using Apple APN service, that is push notifications work when using a token generated using the JSON Web Token Generator in the Push Notification console. However, we get an "InvalidProviderToken" error when creating using our own token using the following code. The Key and TeamID is definitely correct (obviously, censored in the below code). When pasting our token in the JSON Web Token Validator in the Push Notification console we get the error „Invalid signing key“. We merely pasted our secret key in our setNewTokenIfNeeded code, separated on four lines using the “““ style. Does anyone know why this error happens? Given that it works when we upload our .p8 file to the JSON Web Token Generator and we simply paste the text of this file (excluding the lines with "-----BEGIN/END PRIVATE KEY-----") I guess our secret key is correct? Code to generate token fileprivate var currentToken: String? fileprivate var currentTokenCreateTime: Date? fileprivate func setNewTokenIfNeeded() { // Ensure, token is at least 20 minutes but at most 60 minutes old if let currentTokenCreateTime = currentTokenCreateTime { let ageOfTokenInSeconds = abs(Int(currentTokenCreateTime.timeIntervalSinceNow)) NSLog("Age of token: \(Int(ageOfTokenInSeconds / 60)) minutes.") if ageOfTokenInSeconds <= 20 * 60 { return } } // Generate new token NSLog("Renewing token.") let secret = """ ABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABC+ABCABC+ABCABCABC+ABCABCAB/+ ABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABC+ABCABC+ABCABCABC+ABCABCAB/+ ABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABCABC+ABCABC+ABCABCABC+ABCABCAB/+ ABCABCAB """ let privateKey = SymmetricKey(data: Data(secret.utf8)) let headerJSONData = try! JSONEncoder().encode(Header()) let headerBase64String = headerJSONData.urlSafeBase64EncodedString() let payloadJSONData = try! JSONEncoder().encode(Payload()) let payloadBase64String = payloadJSONData.urlSafeBase64EncodedString() let toSign = Data((headerBase64String + "." + payloadBase64String).utf8) let signature = HMAC<SHA256>.authenticationCode(for: toSign, using: privateKey) let signatureBase64String = Data(signature).urlSafeBase64EncodedString() let token = [headerBase64String, payloadBase64String, signatureBase64String].joined(separator: ".") currentToken = token currentTokenCreateTime = Date() } fileprivate struct Header: Encodable { let alg = "ES256" let kid: String = "ABCABCABC" // Key (censored here) } fileprivate struct Payload: Encodable { let iss: String = "ABCABCABC" // Team-ID (censored here) let iat: Int = Int(Date().timeIntervalSince1970) } extension Data { func urlSafeBase64EncodedString() -> String { return base64EncodedString() .replacingOccurrences(of: "+", with: "-") .replacingOccurrences(of: "/", with: "_") .replacingOccurrences(of: "=", with: "") } } Code to send the push notification func SendPushNotification(category: ConversationCategory, conversationID: UUID, title: String, subTitle: String?, body: String, devicesToSendTo: [String]) { // Für alle Felder s. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/generating-a-remote-notification let payload = [ "aps": [ "alert": [ "title": title, "subtitle" : subTitle ?? "", "body": body ], "category" : category.rawValue, "mutable-content": 1 ], "conversationID": conversationID.uuidString ] as [String : Any] // Ggf. Token setzen setNewTokenIfNeeded() guard let currentToken = currentToken else { NSLog("Token not initialized.") return } NSLog(currentToken) // Notification an alle angegebenen Devices schicken let bundleID = "com.TEAMID.APPNAME" for curDeviceID in devicesToSendTo { NSLog("Sending push notification to device with ID \(curDeviceID).") let apnServerURL = "https://api.sandbox.push.apple.com:443/3/device/\(curDeviceID)" var request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: apnServerURL)!) request.httpMethod = "POST" request.allHTTPHeaderFields = [ "authorization": "bearer " + currentToken, "apns-id": UUID().uuidString, "apns-topic": bundleID, "apns-priority": "10", "apns-expiration": "0" ] request.httpBody = try! JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: payload, options: .prettyPrinted) URLSession(configuration: .ephemeral).dataTask(with: request) { data, response, error in if let error = error { NSLog(error.localizedDescription) } if let data = data { NSLog(String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)!) } }.resume() } } On a similar note, some people seem to encounter this error when using the prettyPrinted option for the JSON serialization (i.e., in request.httpBody = try! JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: payload, options: .prettyPrinted). Could this be the culprit, given our secret key contains „/„ and „+“? Many thanks!

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Hi, We use the (now deprecated) server-side receipt verification API (*1) with the app we are maintaining and there are some points I would like confirm on how its response changes based on whether the purchase being processed was a subscription that used an offer code or not. I am particularly concerned about the following: Are there any properties of the response that are added or missing? Is there any property indicating that an offer code was used? If there is, which field is that and what values does it take? Are there any special steps or options required when processing the receipt which used an offer code on the server side? *1 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstorereceipts/verifyreceipt

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