composer: Error with repo.packagist.org/packages.json

I have the following error with composer 1.7-RC when I do composer update

 [Seld\JsonLint\ParsingException]
  "https://repo.packagist.org/packages.json" does not contain valid JSON
  Parse error on line 1:
  ▼\\\\\\♥��ݎ♀���
  ^
  Expected one of: 'STRING', 'NUMBER', 'NULL', 'TRUE', 'FALSE', '{', '['

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 39 (23 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

bug #401 Fix using php://memory on Windows (nicolas-grekas) This PR was merged into the 1.0-dev branch. Discussion ---------- Fix using php://memory on Windows Fixes #400 Fixes https://github.com/... — committed to symfony/flex by fabpot 6 years ago

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@staabm your issue looks totally unrelated. In your case the compressed content is output instead of being buffered. This issue is about json payloads being corrupted. I’d be surprised if this ends up being a Composer issue. Please look closer on your side…

nicolas-grekas on Jul 27, 2018