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 15152 Common middleware raises UnicodeDecodeError if receives non-ASCII QUERY_STRING from buggy web server Loststylus Aymeric Augustin "So, FlaxCrawler seems to like my site and visits it very often always getting a 500 error. Here's the common traceback: {{{ Traceback (most recent call last): File ""/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py"", line 80, in get_response response = middleware_method(request) File ""/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/middleware/common.py"", line 79, in process_request newurl += '?' + request.META['QUERY_STRING'] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) , POST:, COOKIES:{}, META:{'CONTENT_LENGTH': '', 'CONTENT_TYPE': '', 'HTTP_ACCEPT': 'text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip,defalte', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE': 'ru,en-us;q=0.7,en;q=0.3', 'HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL': 'no-cache', 'HTTP_CONNECTION': 'close', 'HTTP_HOST': '{sorry, i've got that censored out}', 'HTTP_PRAGMA': 'no-cache', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'FlaxCrawler/1.0', 'PATH_INFO': u'/articles/ajaxsearch', 'QUERY_STRING': 'q=\xd0\xa7\xd0\xb0\xd0\xb9\xd0\xba\xd0\xb0', 'REMOTE_ADDR': '92.241.173.132', 'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET', 'SCRIPT_NAME': u'', 'SERVER_NAME': '{sorry, i've got that censored out}', 'SERVER_PORT': '80', 'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.1', 'wsgi.errors': , 'wsgi.input': , 'wsgi.multiprocess': True, 'wsgi.multithread': False, 'wsgi.run_once': False, 'wsgi.url_scheme': 'http', 'wsgi.version': (1, 0)}> }}} The major problem i see here is that developer cannot do anything to catch the error :( " Bug closed Core (Other) 1.2 Normal fixed common middleware Accepted 0 0 0 0 0 0