From: ShaoHe Feng <shaohef(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; The cherrpy HTTPError accepts message as string, it will generate a error page, and encode this whole page. ERROR:cherrypy.error:[01/Apr/2014:17:46:28] ENGINE Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cherrypy/wsgiserver/wsgiserver2.py", line 1302, in communicate req.respond() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cherrypy/wsgiserver/wsgiserver2.py", line 831, in respond self.server.gateway(self).respond() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cherrypy/wsgiserver/wsgiserver2.py", line 2126, in respond chunk = chunk.encode('ISO-8859-1') UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 529-536: ordinal not in range(256) Signed-off-by: ShaoHe Feng <shaohef(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; --- src/kimchi/auth.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/kimchi/auth.py b/src/kimchi/auth.py index 3b33d7f..63e11c4 100644 --- a/src/kimchi/auth.py +++ b/src/kimchi/auth.py @@ -238,4 +238,4 @@ def kimchiauth(admin_methods=None): cherrypy.response.headers['WWW-Authenticate'] = 'Basic realm=kimchi' e = InvalidOperation('KCHAUTH0002E') - raise cherrypy.HTTPError(401, e.message) + raise cherrypy.HTTPError(401, e.message.encode('utf-8')) -- 1.8.5.3