Notification system shows warning/error when the project domain contains Unicode characters

[raphael.schmid@…]

No idea if this issue exists for URLs that have a Unicode character in their path somewhere, only had it with an internationalized domain name. The warning it gave in the UI was "Warnung: The ticket has been created, but an error occurred while sending notifications: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 22: ordinal not in range(128)" and the same message appeared in the log as an ERROR.

[raphael.schmid@…]

pacopablo's patch, which fixes the issue

[John Hampton]

So, the issue is that we use the project url as part of the Message-ID hash. If it has non-ascii characters in it, then it fails during md5().hexdigest().

The solution is to simply encode the project url in ascii, ignoring any non-convertible characters. I'll create a test and then commit the fix.

[John Hampton]

Convert project url to UTF-8 when being used in the message-id

[John Hampton]

The attached patch​ takes a slightly different approach in that it converts the project url to UTF-8, instead of dropping unconvertible characters converting to ASCII.

The accompanying test verifies the change.

Raphael, will you please try the attached patch and post the outcome?

[Raphael J. Schmid <raphael.schmid@…>]

John, thanks for the patch! I've applied it and it works as expected.

In testing it, however, I noticed I still had smtp_default_domain and smtp_from set to the "xn—…" transcriptions of the domain name. Using Unicode chars in there reveals another error message, "Warnung: The change has been saved, but an error occurred while sending notifications: execv() arg 2 must contain only strings".

[John Hampton]

Fixed in [9267].

Raphael, I am closing this ticket as this issue is now fixed. I have opened ticket #9082 to track the issue with smtp_default_domain and smtp_from. Will you please add yourself to the CC list for #9082, as well as post a traceback there? Thanks