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
4796	force_unicode error	fpierfed@…		"Hi,

I am using the newforms-admin branch from SVN (revision 5632) under apache 2.0.54, flup SVN (revision 2354) and Python 2.4.1. I have a webapp that uses custom admin sites via {{{myadmin = admin.AdminSite()}}} and {{{myadmin.register(...)}}}

If I access the admin site via the django internal development server, everything works. If I use fcgi the admin pages work only if I am an anonymous user (in that case I am redirected to the login screen, then to the admin pages and all is good). If I use fcgi and I am already logged in, accessing the admin pages gives this error: 
{{{
TypeError at /tips/admin/
coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, __proxy__ found
Request Method: 	GET
Request URL: 	http://www.peertraveller.com/tips/admin/
Exception Type: 	TypeError
Exception Value: 	coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, __proxy__ found
Exception Location: 	/home/fpierfed/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/utils/encoding.py in force_unicode, line 38
Python Executable: 	/home/fpierfed/bin/python
Python Version: 	2.4.1
}}}"	Uncategorized	closed	Core (Other)	dev	Normal	fixed	fcgi unicode __proxy__ databrowse	jeff@… mmulley@… me@…	Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0