Special characters encoding - encoding

My project setup is based on Angular generated from CLI and I'm facing issues with displaying local german characters.
My meta in index.html:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
My editor VS Code is set to save files in UTF-8:
"[html]": {
"editor.detectIndentation": true,
"editor.insertSpaces": false,
"files.encoding": "utf8",
},
"[typescript]": {
"files.encoding": "utf8",
},
"files.encoding": "utf8",
My document request headers:
GET /home?schedule=2 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:4200
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8
Referer: http://localhost:4200/home?schedule=2
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: pl-PL,pl;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7
Cookie: utilityType=HEAT
And respective response headers:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 898
ETag: W/"382-xsHtQLNHNB+FVVszGe2IsoXNXEI"
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:05:10 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
I'm using Google Fonts Open Sans with latin-extended set:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans&subset=latin-ext" rel="stylesheet">
Any outputting results still looks like below:
I'm running out of ideas what else may affect this?

Ok, as already mentioned by #n.m. , issue was that localisation files were produced by external translation team, which saved all text feeds as ANSI, not as UTF-8 encoding. Converting files from ANSI to UTF resolved issue.

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XHR request for json content responding with gibberish

I am quite new to API testing and any topics in networking in general.
I'm attempting to retrieve BC, Canada school names and rankings from a website. The target data is in the right table, available after a prompt to choose a province (here I selected British Columbia). I am using the chrome developer tools to analyze the requests/responses after selecting the province, however I am getting gibberish when expecting a JSON response.
After choosing the province, 3 XMLHttpRequests are made to compareschoolrankings.org/api/v1/ with response headers of
content-type: application/json
I assume the responses to these requests hold my target data, however the response content is gibberish when I would otherwise expect it in json format, in example:
3dd3U2FsdGVkX1/TDJgJ2Kpx3ekEf3yT9DaZMp8nDRMZJlP85M8RWOruj5tm1Qu6c2UF1ifJVFMU8+XbeXvIbWZ/Or ... bo/XkaOUHOnWGMhpFIC8mYz
Here is one request (it's header) that I expect is requesting the target data:
:authority: www.compareschoolrankings.org
:method: GET
:path: /api/v1/schools.json?province=bc&ht=NzQ1Mjg
:scheme: https
accept: application/json, text/plain, */*
accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br
accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9
cookie: _ga=GA1.2.217437611.1609538525; _gid=GA1.2.1976080400.1609538525; _gat_UA-3850680-10=1; _hjTLDTest=1; _hjid=1d1327a2-dd14-4388-b08f-ef670f6178cf; _hjFirstSeen=1
referer: https://www.compareschoolrankings.org/
sec-fetch-dest: empty
sec-fetch-mode: cors
sec-fetch-site: same-origin
user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36
x-requested-with: XMLHttpRequest
Here is the corresponding response header:
accept-ranges: bytes
age: 14440
cache-control: max-age=21600, public
content-encoding: gzip
content-language: en
content-length: 448428
content-type: application/json
date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 22:02:13 GMT
etag: W/"1609524093"
expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
last-modified: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 18:01:33 GMT
server: nginx
strict-transport-security: max-age=300
vary: Accept-Encoding, Cookie
via: 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish, 1.1 varnish
x-cache: MISS, HIT, HIT
x-cache-hits: 0, 1, 1
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-drupal-cache: MISS
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
x-generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)
x-pantheon-styx-hostname: styx-fe3fe4-h-6c4765d776-86gmx
x-served-by: cache-yyz4534-YYZ, cache-sea4433-SEA, cache-sea4483-SEA
x-styx-req-id: 623d1ec1-4c5b-11eb-bbc4-620e110c7f7f
x-timer: S1609538534.794192,VS0,VE0
x-ua-compatible: IE=edge
Question: Why is the response not in a JSON format when both the request and response headers indicate the content to be so? Where should I be looking to retreive my target data?
Any help or references would be much appreciated!

Uber Universal Deep Link giving CORS error

I'm trying to develop with universal deep links. When the user has the Uber app installed, everything works as expected. But if not, the user ends up at a page with "Open in the Uber app" and "Download Uber" links, both of which do nothing. In the console, a CORS error is reported. This includes opening the "example universal deep link to Uber HQ" given in the developer docs. Is this a known issue or is there something I can do to work around it? I'd like my users to be able to use the deep link without this poor experience.
Request headers (for ul-min.a36a5e.js):
GET /web-mobile-client/js/ul-min.a36a5e.js HTTP/1.1
Host: d34odocr7rsfu1.cloudfront.net
Connection: keep-alive
Origin: https://m.uber.com
Sec-Fetch-Dest: script
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0.0; Moto Z (2)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.99 Mobile Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Referer: https://m.uber.com/ul/?action=setPickup&pickup=my_location&dropoff%5Bformatted_address%5D=Uber%20HQ%2C%20Market%20Street%2C%20San%20Francisco%2C%20CA%2C%20USA&dropoff%5Blatitude%5D=37.775231&dropoff%5Blongitude%5D=-122.417528&_ga=2.28187893.830846417.1581952272-1919070024.1581952272
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,ja;q=0.8
Response Headers
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Content-Type: application/xml
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:29:53 GMT
Server: AmazonS3
X-Cache: Error from cloudfront
Via: 1.1 c66a9c8f31dcbd61d052f66d50b6d87c.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
X-Amz-Cf-Pop: LAX3-C1
X-Amz-Cf-Id: 00Y21qP41BPYaywzR6BHA0BC-5ctAe03xFKBgOBgDKupwlaN-2IzLA==

PowerShell Download Txt File from WebSite

I am facing an issue in downloading the txt file from a website. The script below downloads the http code instead of the actual txt file and its contents.
$WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$WebClient.DownloadFile("https://thegivebackproject.org/CheckStatus.txt", "D:\CheckStatus.txt")
Short Answer
The server is doing browser sniffing to send different responses based on the User-Agent header in your request. You can get the response you want by sending a canned user agent string:
$useragent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36"
Invoke-WebRequest -URI https://thegivebackproject.org/CheckStatus.txt -OutFile c:\temp\CheckStatus.txt -UserAgent $useragent
Long Answer
The server responding to the url you're hitting is doing browser sniffing to decide what content to return. If you give it a User-Agent header that it recognises it will return the response you're expecting (i.e. the literal text "Azeemkhan-WaseemRaza").
If you don't include a User-Agent header (and $WebClient.DownloadFile doesn't include one), the server is responding with a html page instead.
You can see this behaviour yourself if you install a HTTP trace tool like Fiddler. When you hit the page in a browser you see this HTTP request and response pair:
request
GET https://thegivebackproject.org/CheckStatus.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: thegivebackproject.org
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3
Sec-Fetch-Site: none
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
Cookie: SPSI=ee952ba44e33e958f963807ede78624b
response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:13:57 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 20
Connection: keep-alive
Last-Modified: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:15:48 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
X-Cache: MISS
Azeemkhan-WaseemRaza
but when you use $WebClient.DownloadFile you see this instead:
request
GET https://thegivebackproject.org/CheckStatus.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: thegivebackproject.org
response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:14:21 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: SPSI=9c24f8993046ef610e25cc727c4a4ae2; Path=/
Set-Cookie: adOtr=obsvl; Expires=Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:47:11 UTC; Path=/
Set-Cookie: UTGv2=D-h4d40f620bfdd6c3b77b035ee99f96621134; Expires=Wed, 11-Nov-20 08:14:21 GMT; Path=/
cache-control: no-store, no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate, private, max-stale=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Cache: MISS
Accept-Ranges: bytes
5908
<!doctype html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<title>StackPath</title>
<style>
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
... etc...
The workaround is to include a recognised User-Agent header in your request, which is easier to to if you use Invoke-WebRequest like #BiNZGi suggested, rather than the WebClient class - see the "short answer" above for the code.
Also, note that this sniffing behaviour with the User-Agent is specific to "thegivebackproject.org" website and isn't necessarily true for other websites - you don't always need to include a User-Agent header as a rule of thumb.
You can use the easier Invoke-WebRequest:
Invoke-WebRequest -URI https://thegivebackproject.org/CheckStatus.txt -OutFile D:\CheckStatus.txt

Different behavior when making CORS request using AXIOs (Chrome vs Edge)

I am getting a weird behavior from Chrome, which I was not recently getting. A week ago, my project was making proper CORS requests to my REST api (Java spring) and all was fine. But yesterday, Chrome (59.0.3071.115) is no longer sending the JSESSIONID as it used to. It now sends a io cookie in its place. That io cookie seems related to WebSocket in some way, which I am not making use of in any of my code.
The thing is, when I try the same code on Edge browser, everything is fine. Edge does send my JSESSIONID cookie and no "io" cookie is sent.
Anyone has experienced this before?
Here is my setup and an example of a request on both browsers.
Setup:
OS: Windows 10
SPA: React, AXIOS (0.16.2)
REST: Java, Spring boot, Tomcat (Embedded)
AXIOS configuration
function getNewAxiosInstance() {
//Init our instance
const ax = axios.create();
//Config defaults
ax.defaults.baseURL = rootUri;
ax.defaults.timeout = 1000;
ax.defaults.withCredentials = true;
return ax;
}
Chrome request
Request URL:http://localhost:8080/api/2.0/client/service_orders/_activeState
Request Method:GET
Status Code:200
Remote Address:[::1]:8080
Referrer Policy:no-referrer-when-downgrade
Response Headers
view source
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials:true
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:http://localhost:3000
Content-Type:application/json;charset=UTF-8
Date:Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:58:39 GMT
Set-Cookie:JSESSIONID=6DA824C819AB48051DC6A63367010DDA;path=/;HttpOnly
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
Vary:Origin
Request Headers
view source
Accept:application/json, text/plain, */*
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8,fr-CA;q=0.6,fr;q=0.4
Cache-Control:no-cache
Connection:keep-alive
Cookie:io=T6umtNN53FTADnx1AAAA
Host:localhost:8080
Origin:http://localhost:3000
Pragma:no-cache
Referer:http://localhost:3000/
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Edge request
Request URL: http://localhost:8080/api/2.0/reception/service-orders/_activeState
Request Method: GET
Status Code: 200 /
- Request Headers
Accept: application/json, text/plain, */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-CA
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: JSESSIONID=177FD4191C578793F8BC04D9DB7287A5
Host: localhost:8080
Origin: http://localhost:3000
Referer: http://localhost:3000/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36 Edge/15.15063
- Response Headers
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://localhost:3000
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 14:08:26 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Vary: Origin
Oh well,
There was indeed something fishy with Chrome. I just reinstalled Chrome from scratch and all is good.
Don't know what happened with Chrome, as I did not install any new extensions nor did I changed any settings.
Cheers

Facebook Page Tab fails to load in rails 4.0

I am using rails 4.0 to develop facebook page_tab. I got blank content showed on the facebook tabpage.
From what I think, the issue is related to turbolink. The following are the firefox requrest and response headers
Response header
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:54:54 GMT
Status: 200 OK
Connection: close
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-UA-Compatible: chrome=1
X-XHR-Current-Location: /page_tab
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Etag: "5d34060006e527f1a21db545df3d919f"
Cache-Control: max-age=0, private, must-revalidate
Set-Cookie: _likenotlike_session=SEhKbk5oZ0FHT2o0RkRMK3k2OThidHY1Yk5HYjdIWGNkNFIrWisxbkVKRitLT2tJM2d2b1NVV0xQYW5Qc015L0ljVjdDWCtITWR4cUhLc2VjK3hGUHNCbHAzb0YxV1F4OUNaa0hudDE0MkFZRlhYUGgxK2M5eDBNMTRIZzdhZXVyRTBmZEx3Q1RKaXRrZFJwaUYyY2JMdUNpSmlZRmhNS0Z6dGFEMEE5b2RLOXJGdWF0Z1NHcDR1N0ZleVgvZDRJLS1KcjhndzRuUjJaSXZnd1lNdjUyNTJBPT0%3D--a51e845979d81ace643d14b399ffa655ece63d79; path=/; HttpOnly
X-Request-Id: aac0e275-92b7-4b4b-9be7-b811ff9dec29
X-Runtime: 0.024202
Request Header
POST /page_tab HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:60000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://static.ak.facebook.com/platform/page_proxy.php?v=5
Cookie: fbm_353759128067702=base_domain=.localhost; fbm_470420673030979=base_domain=.localhost; request_method=POST; _likenotlike_session=T2o2dVZUSkhxUDhWdDJyWGsvQmYxZHVGVGszYy9pc2VIdGs3OWJ0YkRQTSt2eTJtR2pxTDZLSFRpbWVDamx2ZFVxU2pJRENNRzl2elNqMkF4Q01hcTlWZkZNNUVnSy9ucnJrUWQ0YWFheUJqRklsaEQ1RlM5ZGN1MEhGV0NpQ0E5bjc0VXZoQThuVzJjbjFQTmpZeUVzK2M1anRBamZqU3VwZVlYUlNpQmRnYnlVNWJZTk5wc3dZTEZpR0lyWTE2LS1tSkRHb3JpNGM4U205bEdxMEpkOE5nPT0%3D--85ea3314a43d08dda9d00218a5045968ef040d0b
Connection: keep-alive
In the response header there are X-- headers that I think are related to ajax. So I think rails together with turbolink think that the request is the ajax request but actually the request is normal post request if you can see from the request header above.
Really appreciate for your help.
Solution to the problem is the following link
http://conpanna.net/en-us/blog/5185b5ce79ec73ae54000003
Just add response.headers["X-Frame-Options"] = "GOFORIT"
and every thing works