id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 11111 Python 2.7 WSGIRequest should not make PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME unicode mgood nobody The [http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/ WSGI spec] requires the standard environment values to be `str`, not `unicode` types, but the WSGIRequest object updates the environ (via self.META which is a reference), setting PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME to unicode objects. These unicode values led to some issues with [http://pythonpaste.org/webtest/ WebTest] which checks to ensure that the environ only contains `str` values. Bug closed HTTP handling 1.0 Normal wontfix Graham.Dumpleton@… Malcolm Tredinnick cmawebsite@… Accepted 1 0 1 0 0 0