http://localhost/ticket/1267 <p> Occasionally see this problem when producing an error page. Here's an example </p> <pre class="wiki">WebApp Error: &lt;type 'exceptions.TypeError'&gt;: You cannot set the body to a unicode value without a charset URL: http://at.ckan.net/authorizationgroup/new Module weberror.errormiddleware:162 in __call__ &lt;&lt; __traceback_supplement__ = Supplement, self, environ sr_checker = ResponseStartChecker(start_response) app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker) return self.make_catching_iter(app_iter, environ, sr_checker) except: &gt;&gt; app_iter = self.application(environ, sr_checker) Module beaker.middleware:73 in __call__ &lt;&lt; self.cache_manager) environ[self.environ_key] = self.cache_manager return self.app(environ, start_response) &gt;&gt; return self.app(environ, start_response) Module beaker.middleware:152 in __call__ &lt;&lt; headers.append(('Set-cookie', cookie)) return start_response(status, headers, exc_info) return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response) def _get_session(self): &gt;&gt; return self.wrap_app(environ, session_start_response) Module routes.middleware:130 in __call__ &lt;&lt; environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = environ['SCRIPT_NAME'][:-1] response = self.app(environ, start_response) # Wrapped in try as in rare cases the attribute will be gone already &gt;&gt; response = self.app(environ, start_response) Module pylons.wsgiapp:125 in __call__ &lt;&lt; controller = self.resolve(environ, start_response) response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response) if 'paste.testing_variables' in environ and hasattr(response, &gt;&gt; response = self.dispatch(controller, environ, start_response) Module pylons.wsgiapp:324 in dispatch &lt;&lt; if log_debug: log.debug("Calling controller class with WSGI interface") return controller(environ, start_response) def load_test_env(self, environ): &gt;&gt; return controller(environ, start_response) Module ckan.lib.base:117 in __call__ &lt;&lt; # available in environ['pylons.routes_dict'] try: return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response) finally: model.Session.remove() &gt;&gt; return WSGIController.__call__(self, environ, start_response) Module pylons.controllers.core:284 in __call__ &lt;&lt; if log_debug: log.debug("Calling Response object to return WSGI data") return response(environ, self.start_response) if log_debug: &gt;&gt; return response(environ, self.start_response) Module webob.exc:248 in __call__ &lt;&lt; return [] if not self.body and not self.empty_body: return self.generate_response(environ, start_response) return Response.__call__(self, environ, start_response) &gt;&gt; return self.generate_response(environ, start_response) Module webob.exc:239 in generate_response &lt;&lt; status=self.status, headerlist=headerlist, content_type=content_type ) return resp(environ, start_response) &gt;&gt; content_type=content_type Module webob.response:94 in __init__ &lt;&lt; if charset is None: raise TypeError( "You cannot set the body to a unicode value without a charset") body = body.encode(charset) self._body = body &gt;&gt; "You cannot set the body to a unicode value without a charset") TypeError: You cannot set the body to a unicode value without a charset </pre> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/1267 Trac 0.12.3 dread Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:25:30 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1267#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/1267#comment:1 <p> John thinks it is a problem with <a class="missing wiki">WebOb?</a> 1.0.6 </p> Ticket dread Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:56:02 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1267#comment:2 http://localhost/ticket/1267#comment:2 <p> This error has been occurring on at.ckan.net which has webob 0.9.7.1-1 </p> Ticket dread Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:47:51 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1267#comment:3 http://localhost/ticket/1267#comment:3 <ul> <li><strong>owner</strong> set to <em>dread</em> </li> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>assigned</em> </li> </ul> <p> Running tests with <a class="missing wiki">WebOb?</a> 0.9.7.1, we see the error! Am now trying to fix. </p> Ticket dread Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:48:44 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1267#comment:4 http://localhost/ticket/1267#comment:4 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>assigned</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> </ul> <p> Fixed in cset:db5bf5b45b4f for ckan 1.4.3. </p> <p> Later versions of webob add the charset header for unicode errors (webob/exc.py:generate_response): </p> <pre class="wiki"> extra_kw = {} if isinstance(body, unicode): extra_kw.update(charset='utf-8') resp = Response(body, status=self.status, headerlist=headerlist, content_type=content_type, **extra_kw ) </pre><p> This was fixed in webob cset:25fc14d49623 which went into <a class="missing wiki">WebOb?</a> 1.0. </p> <p> This problem affects versions from CKAN 1.4.2 back to 1.3.1. We had been avoiding this in CKAN previously by only doing abort() with a plain string. </p> Ticket