GeoPandas driver error

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I believe I have set up everything correctly, but the following code:

import ee
ee.Initialize()

import restee as ree

# get an authenticated session with GCP for REST API calls
session = ree.EESession("<secret>","<super secret>")

# use ee to get a featurecollection for USA
countries = ee.FeatureCollection("USDOS/LSIB_SIMPLE/2017")
camerica= countries.filter(ee.Filter.eq("wld_rgn", "Central America"))

# define the domain imagery will be requested for
# in this case it is the computed USA featurecollection
domain = ree.Domain.from_ee_geometry(session,camerica,resolution=0.01)

gives the following error: DriverError: '/vsimem/5c2fb0daef8141bc9dc81453856ced7c' not recognized as a supported file format.
full traceback:

Details

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CPLE_OpenFailedError                      Traceback (most recent call last)
fiona/_shim.pyx in fiona._shim.gdal_open_vector()

fiona/_err.pyx in fiona._err.exc_wrap_pointer()

CPLE_OpenFailedError: '/vsimem/5c2fb0daef8141bc9dc81453856ced7c' not recognized as a supported file format.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

DriverError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
/tmp/ipykernel_3018/3436715166.py in <module>
     13 # define the domain imagery will be requested for
     14 # in this case it is the computed USA featurecollection
---> 15 domain = ree.Domain.from_ee_geometry(session,camerica,resolution=0.01)
     16 
     17 # define some computations

~/miniconda3/envs/xaquacrop-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/restee/core.py in from_ee_geometry(session, geom, resolution)
    231         response = session.send_request(url, payload)
    232 
--> 233         gdf = gpd.read_file(StringIO(response.content.decode()))
    234 
    235         return Domain.from_geopandas(gdf, resolution=resolution)

~/miniconda3/envs/xaquacrop-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/geopandas/io/file.py in _read_file(filename, bbox, mask, rows, **kwargs)
    199 
    200     with fiona_env():
--> 201         with reader(path_or_bytes, **kwargs) as features:
    202 
    203             # In a future Fiona release the crs attribute of features will

~/miniconda3/envs/xaquacrop-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fiona/collection.py in __init__(self, bytesbuf, **kwds)
    553 
    554         # Instantiate the parent class.
--> 555         super(BytesCollection, self).__init__(self.virtual_file, vsi=filetype,
    556                                               encoding='utf-8', **kwds)
    557 

~/miniconda3/envs/xaquacrop-dev/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fiona/collection.py in __init__(self, path, mode, driver, schema, crs, encoding, layer, vsi, archive, enabled_drivers, crs_wkt, ignore_fields, ignore_geometry, **kwargs)
    160             if self.mode == 'r':
    161                 self.session = Session()
--> 162                 self.session.start(self, **kwargs)
    163             elif self.mode in ('a', 'w'):
    164                 self.session = WritingSession()

fiona/ogrext.pyx in fiona.ogrext.Session.start()

fiona/_shim.pyx in fiona._shim.gdal_open_vector()

DriverError: '/vsimem/5c2fb0daef8141bc9dc81453856ced7c' not recognized as a supported file format.

where it is linked to this SO thread and it seems that for some reason response.content.decode results in a HTML page?