2 hours ago
Hitting my service's Railway domain directly (hashsmash-production.up.railway.app, my own Cloudflare bypassed):
POST /api/events with "description":"night — out" (em-dash, U+2014) → 401, Server: railway-hikari, empty body.
Same request with "night out" (no em-dash) → 201.
Also 401s on curly apostrophe ' (U+2019) and accented letters (é). Emoji and -- are fine.
It even 401s a permitAll endpoint, so it's not my app's auth — it's your railway-hikari edge rejecting legit UTF-8 in the request body.
Server: railway-hikari
x-railway-edge: den1
Content-Length: 0
4 Replies
2 hours ago
This thread has been opened as a bounty so the community can help solve it.
Status changed to Open Railway • about 2 hours ago
2 hours ago
Respectfully, the consensus in this post is wrong. This is, in fact, your application returning the 401; it is not being returned by anything on our end.
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • about 2 hours ago
brody
Respectfully, the consensus in this post is wrong. This is, in fact, your application returning the 401; it is not being returned by anything on our end.
an hour ago
I don't have any thing related to Hikari in my entire stack. Do you have any suggestions where this is coming from? Looks like railway-hikari specifically.
Server: railway-hikari
x-railway-edge: den1
Content-Length: 0
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • about 1 hour ago
an hour ago
Hikari is our CDN, but it is unrelated to your application returning a 401. Hikari is simply passing along the status code that your application set.
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • about 1 hour ago
brody
Hikari is our CDN, but it is unrelated to your application returning a 401. Hikari is simply passing along the status code that your application set.
an hour ago
Thank you for that explanation that helped solve this.
Down the end of the rabbit hole it turns out my powershell script for creating data was actually creating non UTF-8 characters (while my app was not) so the app was legitimately catching junk characters and not allowing them.
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • about 1 hour ago
Status changed to Solved Railway • about 1 hour ago