So as part of breaking down how to write a service connection I need to use URLFetch as opposed to URLRead. Unfortunately this is causing me some headaches as the former throws errors where the latter doesn't.
For instance:
In[23]:= URLFetch["https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search/advanced?\
site=mathematica.stackexchange.com&q=..."]
$CharacterEcoding::utf8
The byte sequence {139} could not be interpreted as a character in the UTF-8 character encoding.
In[26]:= "https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search/advanced?site=\
mathematica.stackexchange.com&q=..." // Import
Out[26]= "{\"items\":[],\"has_more\":false,\"quota_max\":300,\"quota_\
remaining\":260}"
How does one get around this?