If the REST plugin causes an ILIAS error, a letter separated HTML document is shown as response in the Checkout app (tested with ILIAS 5.2.9 and 5.3.6)
Result
{
0: "<",
1: "!",
2: "D",
3: "O",
4: "C",
5: "T",
6: "Y",
7: "P",
8: "E",
9: " ",
10: "h",
11: "t",
12: "m",
13: "l",
14: ">",
15: "\n",
16: "<",
17: "h",
18: "t",
19: "m",
20: "l",
21: " ",
22: "l",
23: "a",
24: "n",
25: "g",
26: "=",
27: """,
28: """,
29: " ",
...