buy.itunes.apple.com/verifyReceipt exception, time out

Hello we are having too many time out and SSL exception errors from

https://buy.itunes.apple.com/verifyReceipt

Issue start date 24 Jan 2020 15:10 GMT+3

Is there anyone having same problem

Replies

https://buy.itunes.apple.com/verifyReceipt


so, it is coughing blood and guts now


* Trying 17.173.66.180...

* TCP_NODELAY set

* Connected to buy.itunes.apple.com (17.173.66.180) port 443 (#0)

* ALPN, offering h2

* ALPN, offering http/1.1

* successfully set certificate verify locations:

* CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem

CApath: none

* TLSv1.2 (OUT)

, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):

* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):

* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):

* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):

* TLSv1.2 (OUT)

, TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):

* TLSv1.2 (OUT)

, TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):

* TLSv1.2 (OUT)

, TLS handshake, Finished (20):

* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):

* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):

* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256

* ALPN, server accepted to use http/1.1

* Server certificate:

* subject: businessCategory=Private Organization; jurisdictionCountryName=US; jurisdictionStateOrProvinceName=California; serialNumber=C0806592; C=US; ST=California; L=Cupertino; O=Apple Inc.; OU=Delivery Site Reliability Engineering; CN=buy.itunes.apple.com

* start date: Feb 10 00:00:00 2019 GMT

* expire date: Mar 24 12:00:00 2020 GMT

* subjectAltName: host "buy.itunes.apple.com" matched cert's "buy.itunes.apple.com"

* issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; OU=www.digicert.com; CN=DigiCert SHA2 Extended Validation Server CA

* SSL certificate verify ok.

> POST /verifyReceipt HTTP/1.1

> Host: buy.itunes.apple.com

> User-Agent: curl/7.64.1

> Accept: /

> Content-Type: application/json

> Content-Length: 6872

> Expect: 100-continue

>

< HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable

< Content-Length: 62

< Connection: close

< Cache-Control: no-cache,no-store

< Pragma: no-cache

<

* Closing connection 0

* TLSv1.2 (OUT)

, TLS alert, close notify (256):

<html><body><b>Http/1.1 Service Unavailable</b></body> </html>



According to apple, all is green

half of the new orders affected and renew subscriptions stopped. I am curios why this is not announced anywere

We're having the same problem as of 7:30am EST this morning.

We've been experiencing the same issue since 24 Jan 2020 12:10 UTC.

We are having similar issue too. Verify Receipt endpoint is sending HTML instead of JSON.



We are having the same issue too Started an hr or so ago. Verify receipt endpoint is sending HTML instead of JSON.


I am waiting for a call back, the support person I spoke to didn't know how to report this so is speaking to the senior team...

We are experiencing this issue as well. Both the SSL issue mentioned earlier as well as the API endpoint returning "Connecting to the iTunes Store" HTML responses.


Meanwhile the status page shows all green: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

Also getting the issue with the receipt validation endpoint responding with 'Connecting to iTunes Store' HTML here, since about an hour ago.

Same here from Germany, started Jan 24, 2020 12:11:01 PM UTC (going on for 3 hours at this point). We get a mix of connection timeouts and service unavailables depending on the actual server answering.


It seems that some, but not all, Apple servers are affected by this (maybe a single DC?). In any case we found that some servers still respond; if you can force your servers to use a different DNS entry (buy.itunes.apple.com is resolving differently for different callers), you might still be lucky enough to get validations. Note however that you should closely monitor this then; if you hardcode IP addresses, these may become invalid at any time⚠ so this is a temporary workaround at best. In any case that is just saving a sales event that happens to fall in the middle of our outage, so everyone is grasping at straws probably.

https://downdetector.com/status/app-store/


Downdetector all red for apple for 4 hours now,


but apple status page is still green lol

Hi there,


We're experiencing this as well, and it's been ongoing for an hour and a half now. Can we get a response from an Apple Rep on whether this is known, being handled, and when we can expect a resolution?

I have raised a case with Apple Developer Program Support.


They didn't have any insight and wanted screenshots etc which I have sent over

Hello again everyone,


I have send a ticket to feedback assistant if you can also add more I hope they will response soon.

https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/7549469


Please provide a descriptive title for your feedback:

https://buy.itunes.apple.com/verifyReceipt not responding

Which area are you seeing an issue with?

StoreKit

What type of feedback are you reporting?

Incorrect/Unexpected Behavior

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Hello, We are validating receipts from https://buy.itunes.apple.com/verifyReceipt for now we are getting response as timeout or ssl exception. Issue started 24.01.2020 15.10 GMT +3 Thank you

Happening here, too. Ongoing for nearly 4 hours now. Had to scramble this morning to get some patches in to mitigate this disaster for our users. Has anyone heard anything from Apple yet?