JSON.parse() for an Object of type application/octet-stream

Question

I have a JSON stream of type application/octet-stream . I need to parse this using JSON.parse() or similar? How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

application/octet-stream is the MIME type for "Uh, I dunno, it's some bytes".

Either you have JSON which hasn't been correctly labelled and you can simply use JSON.parse as normal or you have something else and you need to identify what it is and why you have it.

This could be anything from "It is gzipped JSON that you need to gunzip before parsing as JSON" to "It is corrupted nonsense and you need to fix whatever is generating it".