Sync breaks when server returns HTML instead of JSON
Sheet sync fails with a JSON syntax error because a proxy or CDN layer returns an HTML page instead of data.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 19 January 2023 · last reported 1 March 2024
What's going wrong
Store owners who sync WooCommerce with Google Sheets sometimes see a JSON parse error saying the response starts with an HTML document.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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