"API Limit 21KB!" ...Then 32KB of data caused a mysterious error. The culprit? Confusing bytes with characters.
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Hey, it's your resident Old Man Developer here. One evening, while checking the logs for my self-made bot as usual, I noticed a recurring, inexplicable error in a section that interacts with an external API. The logs showed messages like Payload too large . "Ah, typical," I thought. But something f…
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- 2026-09-18 23:30 · DEV Community — AI
"API Limit 21KB!" ...Then 32KB of data caused a mysterious error. The culprit? Confusing bytes with characters.