For posterity, here is the resolved
issue: https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Requests.jl/issues/66.
On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9:37:36 PM UTC-4, Ian Butterworth wrote:
>
> Today I started getting an error on juliabox that only occurs in 0.3.11. I
> posted this to the 'Requests' github, but I thought it may not actually be
> the source of the issue. Can anyone shed any light?
>
>
> If you run this:
>
> resp = get("http://httpbin.org/get";)
> object = JSON.parse(resp.data::String);
> println(object)
>
> Returns:
> Julia 0.4.0-dev
>
> Dict{AbstractString,Any}("headers"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}("Host"=>"httpbin.org","Accept"=>"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8","User-Agent"=>"Requests.jl/0.0.0"),"args"=>Dict{AbstractString,Any}(),"url"=>"http://httpbin.org/get","origin"=>"xxxxx")
>
> Julia 0.3.11
>
> type: typeassert: expected String, got Array{Uint8,1}
> while loading In[6], in expression starting on line 2
>
>
