UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xea in position 522: invalid continuation byte

[motin]

There seem to be some issue related to serializing and deserializing JSON between the instrumentation and the platform.

Log output:

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 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/OpenWPM/automation/SocketInterface.py", line 89, in _handle_conn
    msg = json.loads(msg.decode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xea in position 522: invalid continuation byte
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Clear profile? True
No handlers could be found for logger "pyvirtualdisplay.abstractdisplay"

[englehardt]

Related to #255

[englehardt]

Confirmed fix in #442 (comment)