Did Apple change the .mobileprovision file format, and how can I view the current format?

Question

I'm finding many articles on the web where it is implied that you can view the .mobileprovision file contents in a text editor. For example, this Urban Airship post :

When push notifications are enabled for an app, the aps-environment key will appear in the .mobileprovision file specifying the provisioning profile:

<key>Entitlements</key>
<dict>
    <key>application-identifier</key>
...

However the mobilprovision files I have (obtained within the last few days) contain 466 1/2 rows of 8 groups of 4 hex digits, (eg 4851 3842 4176 2845 0a09 01a2 404d 4382 ). How can I view this type of file?

Answer 1

Provisioning Profiles are encoded. To decode them and examine the XML you can use this via command line:

security cms -D -i #{@profilePath}

where #{@profilePath} is the filepath to your .mobileprovision file.

A fuller Ruby example is:

require 'plist'
profile = `security cms -D -i #{@profilePath}`
xml = Plist::parse_xml(profile)
appID = xml['Entitlements']['application-identifier']

Answer 2

如果您希望Sublime Text 2能够读取.mobileprovision配置文件，则这是设置

"enable_hexadecimal_encoding": false,

Answer 3

You are using a text-editor that is a bit too clever for you :D.

Your editor finds out that the file actually is binary and shows it as a hex-dump - for example Sublime 2 does it that way. Open that same file using TextEdit. You will see a couple of lines of binary garbledegock and then some plain-text (XML) that should contain the information you are looking for.

However, do not edit that file using TextEdit, that will render it unusable!

Answer 4

您可以使用openssl输出签名配置文件的内容。

openssl smime -in /path/to/your.mobileprovision -inform der -verify