Exception with ldap signin when the password includes accented characters

asked 2011-06-27 02:26:41 -0500

Samuel
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updated 2011-06-27 02:27:29 -0500

When the password of the user contains an accented character like "à" or "ç" for instance, the following exception is raised :

/data/local/virtualenv/askbot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/askbot/middleware/pagesize.py TIME: 2011-06-27 01:57:29,526 MSG: pagesize.py:process_exception:43   File "/data/local/virtualenv/askbot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 99, in get_response
    response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/data/local/virtualenv/askbot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 48, in _wrapped_view
    response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/data/local/virtualenv/askbot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/askbot/deps/django_authopenid/views.py", line 317, in signin
    login_form.cleaned_data['password']
  File "/data/local/virtualenv/askbot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/askbot/deps/django_authopenid/util.py", line 643, in ldap_check_password
    ldap_session.simple_bind_s(username, password)
  File "/data/local/virtualenv/askbot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 206, in simple_bind_s
    msgid = self.simple_bind(who,cred,serverctrls,clientctrls)
  File "/data/local/virtualenv/askbot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 200, in simple_bind
    return self._ldap_call(self._l.simple_bind,who,cred,EncodeControlTuples(serverctrls),EncodeControlTuples(clientctrls))
  File "/data/local/virtualenv/askbot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ldap/ldapobject.py", line 96, in _ldap_call
    result = func(*args,**kwargs)

/data/local/virtualenv/askbot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/askbot/middleware/pagesize.py TIME: 2011-06-27 01:57:29,527 MSG: pagesize.py:process_exception:44 <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>
/data/local/virtualenv/askbot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/askbot/middleware/pagesize.py TIME: 2011-06-27 01:57:29,527 MSG: pagesize.py:process_exception:45 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe7' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
/data/local/virtualenv/askbot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/askbot/middleware/pagesize.py TIME: 2011-06-27 01:57:29,527 MSG: pagesize.py:process_exception:54 path: /account/signin/
method: POST
data: <QueryDict: {u'username': [u'user'], u'openid_login_token': [u''], u'password_action': [u'login'], u'next': [u'/'], u'login_provider_name': [u'local'], u'login_with_password': [u'Sign in'], u'csrfmiddlewaretoken': [u'e630f38ee4a67878c8e28d1cd6411ac0'], u'password': [u'XXXXXX']}>
host: ask
user: AnonymousUser

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