How check sandbox server status? (“Cannot connect to itunes store”)

Question

I\'m developing in-app purchase using this excellent tutorial: http://www.raywenderlich.com/21081/introduction-to-in-app-purchases-in-ios-6-tutorial and I\'m getting an error \"

Answer 1

Almost a year late, but I'm facing the same problem right now. As far as I know, the best way to test the status of the iTunes Sandbox environment is checking this url:

http://sandbox.itunes.apple.com

An Http/1.1 Service Unavailable means SSErrorHTTPStatusCodeKey=503 in your debugger output.