Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 13 years ago
#12774 closed
Flatpages will cause unicodedecodeerror if request url contains non-ascii characters and no trailing slash — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Owned by: | nobody | |
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| Component: | HTTP handling | Version: | 1.2-alpha |
| Severity: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Accepted | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
If you have flatpages activated, it will choke on a unicodedecodeerror if the requested url contains a non-ascii character and no trailing slash.
Example url:
http://www.example.com/%20%C3%A5
This will trigger this message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 92, in get_response
response = callback(request, *callback_args, callback_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/contrib/flatpages/views.py", line 23, in flatpage
return HttpResponseRedirect("%s/" % request.path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/http/init.py", line 407, in init
selfLocation = redirect_to
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/http/init.py", line 320, in setitem
header, value = self._convert_to_ascii(header, value)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/http/init.py", line 309, in _convert_to_ascii
value = value.encode('us-ascii')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe5' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128), HTTP response headers must be in US-ASCII format