UnicodeDecodeError in open_url()

[marco-thal]

When trying to run the script, at Step 3.1.b, I run into an error in the following code line:
thredds_ds = open_url(granule_dap)

The full error message is as follows:
`UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[38], line 18
15 print(granule_dap)
17 # Using pydap's open_url
---> 18 thredds_ds = open_url(granule_dap)
20 # Xarray DataSet - opening dataset via remote OPeNDAP
21 ds = xr.open_dataset(xr.backends.PydapDataStore(thredds_ds), decode_coords="all")

File ~\anaconda3\myenv\lib\site-packages\pydap\client.py:66, in open_url(url, application, session, output_grid, timeout)
58 def open_url(url, application=None, session=None, output_grid=True,
59 timeout=DEFAULT_TIMEOUT):
60 """
61 Open a remote URL, returning a dataset.
62
63 set output_grid to False to retrieve only main arrays and
64 never retrieve coordinate axes.
65 """
---> 66 dataset = DAPHandler(url, application, session, output_grid,
67 timeout).dataset
69 # attach server-side functions
70 dataset.functions = Functions(url, application, session)

File ~\anaconda3\myenv\lib\site-packages\pydap\handlers\dap.py:57, in DAPHandler.init(self, url, application, session, output_grid, timeout)
55 if not r.charset:
56 r.charset = 'ascii'
---> 57 dds = r.text
59 dasurl = urlunsplit((scheme, netloc, path + '.das', query, fragment))
60 r = GET(dasurl, application, session, timeout=timeout)

File ~\anaconda3\myenv\lib\site-packages\webob\response.py:622, in Response._text__get(self)
620 decoding = self.charset or self.default_body_encoding
621 body = self.body
--> 622 return body.decode(decoding, self.unicode_errors)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)`

I have updated everything in the script to 'Daymet V4R1' (including the ID, changed from ID=1840 to ID=2129).

Any idea where this problem is coming from and how to resolve it is highly appreciated!