[issue7708] test_xmlrpc fails with non-ascii path

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler.do_POST() writes the traceback in the HTTP header "X-traceback". But an HTTP header value is ASCII only, whereas a traceback can contain any character (eg. an non-ASCII character from a directory name for this issue).

A simple fix would be to use the ASCII charset with the backslashreplace error handler. Attached patch uses:

   trace = str(trace.encode('ASCII', 'backslashreplace'), 'ASCII')

Is there an easier method to escape non-ASCII characters without double conversion (unicode->bytes and bytes->unicode)?

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keywords: +patch
nosy: +haypo
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file15958/xmlrpc_server_ascii_traceback.patch

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