Paul Webster wrote:
>
> They are now putting a BOM (byte order mark) at the start of their JSON
> data - before the opening {
> The result was that the json decode failed.
>
> I have not yet researched if this is a valid thing for them to do ...
> but it was easy enough to strip it from the front before attempting the
> decode.
As per section 8.1 of RFC 7159, BOM is illegal JSON:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7159#section-8.1
Probably well meant of the Swiss programmer but misguided.
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