fixes

server/utils/nocodb.ts

@@ -210,25 +210,55 @@ export const setGlobalNocoDBConfig = (config: any) => {
 };
 
 export const getNocoDbConfiguration = () => {
+  let configToUse: any = null;
+  
   // Try to use the global configuration first
   if (globalNocoDBConfig) {
     console.log('[nocodb] Using global configuration - URL:', globalNocoDBConfig.url);
-    return {
+    configToUse = {
       url: globalNocoDBConfig.url,
       token: globalNocoDBConfig.token,
       baseId: globalNocoDBConfig.baseId
     };
+  } else {
+    // Fallback to runtime config
+    console.log('[nocodb] Global config not available, using runtime config');
+    const config = useRuntimeConfig().nocodb;
+    configToUse = {
+      ...config,
+      url: config.url || 'https://database.monacousa.org'
+    };
+    console.log('[nocodb] Fallback configuration URL:', configToUse.url);
   }
   
-  // Fallback to runtime config
-  console.log('[nocodb] Global config not available, using runtime config');
-  const config = useRuntimeConfig().nocodb;
-  const fallbackConfig = {
-    ...config,
-    url: config.url || 'https://database.monacousa.org'
-  };
-  console.log('[nocodb] Fallback configuration URL:', fallbackConfig.url);
-  return fallbackConfig;
+  // Validate API token before using it
+  if (configToUse.token) {
+    const token = configToUse.token.trim();
+    
+    // Check for non-ASCII characters that would cause ByteString errors
+    if (!/^[\x00-\xFF]*$/.test(token)) {
+      console.error('[nocodb] ❌ CRITICAL ERROR: API token contains invalid Unicode characters!');
+      console.error('[nocodb] This will cause ByteString conversion errors in HTTP headers.');
+      console.error('[nocodb] Please update the API token in the admin configuration.');
+      throw createError({
+        statusCode: 500,
+        statusMessage: 'NocoDB API token contains invalid characters. Please reconfigure the database connection in the admin panel with a valid API token.'
+      });
+    }
+    
+    // Additional validation for common token issues
+    if (token.includes('•') || token.includes('…') || token.includes('"') || token.includes('"')) {
+      console.error('[nocodb] ❌ CRITICAL ERROR: API token contains formatting characters!');
+      console.error('[nocodb] Found characters like bullets (•), quotes, etc. that break HTTP headers.');
+      console.error('[nocodb] Please copy the raw API token from NocoDB without any formatting.');
+      throw createError({
+        statusCode: 500,
+        statusMessage: 'NocoDB API token contains formatting characters (bullets, quotes, etc.). Please reconfigure with the raw token from NocoDB.'
+      });
+    }
+  }
+  
+  return configToUse;
 };
 
 export const createTableUrl = (table: Table | string) => {