iOS 6 - Rate App links busted?

Question

i've put the iOS 6 GM on my iPhone 4 (not 4S), and the 'rate it' buttons in my own app and others no longer do their thing. instead it opens the app store w/ "cannot connect to itunes store". regular app-links from safari work fine.

i'm using links of this form:

itms-apps://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewContentsUserReviews?type=Purple+Software&id=<APP_ID>

for example, from safari on iOS 5.1, the link on this page works fine: http://elenzil.com/scratch/appstore

but the same test w/ iOS 6 yields the problem i describe.

.. i have to say the App Store in general seems a bit buggy in the iOS 6 GM. i'm seeing issues scrolling through the list of search results, mainly.

Answer 1

I'm using http and it works well in iOS6.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewContentsUserReviews?id=xxxxxxxxxx&onlyLatestVersion=true&pageNumber=0&sortOrdering=1&type=Purple+Software

Just sharing what I use.

Answer 2

We also ran into this, but it appears that Apple put in a fix this morning. No updates of iOS required.