Invalid continuation byte

[Paul Everitt]

URLDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 10: invalid continuation byte
Exception when processing xx
Referer: None

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/osfkarl/.buildout/eggs/cp27mu/pyramid-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pyramid/tweens.py", line 17, in excview_tween
    response = handler(request)
  File "/srv/osfkarl/.buildout/eggs/cp27mu/pyramid_tm-0.5-py2.7.egg/pyramid_tm/__init__.py", line 107, in tm_tween
    return response
  File "/srv/osfkarl/.buildout/eggs/cp27mu/pyramid_tm-0.5-py2.7.egg/pyramid_tm/__init__.py", line 75, in __exit__
    return self._retry_or_raise(t, v, tb)
  File "/srv/osfkarl/.buildout/eggs/cp27mu/pyramid_tm-0.5-py2.7.egg/pyramid_tm/__init__.py", line 60, in _retry_or_raise
    reraise(t, v, tb) # otherwise reraise the exception
  File "/srv/osfkarl/.buildout/eggs/cp27mu/pyramid_tm-0.5-py2.7.egg/pyramid_tm/__init__.py", line 100, in tm_tween
    response = handler(request)
  File "/srv/osfkarl/.buildout/eggs/cp27mu/pyramid-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pyramid/router.py", line 116, in handle_request
    tdict = traverser(request)
  File "/srv/osfkarl/.buildout/eggs/cp27mu/pyramid-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pyramid/traversal.py", line 610, in __call__
    vpath_tuple = traversal_path(vpath)
  File "/srv/osfkarl/.buildout/eggs/cp27mu/repoze.lru-0.4-py2.7.egg/repoze/lru/__init__.py", line 96, in lru_cached
    val = f(*arg)
  File "/srv/osfkarl/.buildout/eggs/cp27mu/pyramid-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/pyramid/traversal.py", line 486, in traversal_path
    raise URLDecodeError(e.encoding, e.object, e.start, e.end, e.reason)
URLDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 10: invalid continuation byte

[Carlos de la Guardia (cguardia)]

The name "Argenis" in the URL rang a bell, and I foun dthat we had already looked at this, but at the time we marked it as won't fix. I am taking another look at the idea of preventing links coming from Karl to fail like this.

[Carlos de la Guardia (cguardia)]

Hit "post comment" too soon. I wish these could be edited. Here's the link to the old ticket:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/karl4/+bug/1636993