Non-Ascii Characters in URL causes crash

I have a slightly weird issue.  Someone is sending http requests with Chinese characters in the URL.  Ok, it's probably just Chinese hackers trying something.  But it's causing Django to fall over with a UnicodeEncodeError in the response.

I'm thinking this must be a bug in Django as the response is generated by Django itself.

I have flatpages turned on, and obviously this url doesn't match anything I have in flatpages so it's somewhere in the flatpage not found path.  I also have I18N turned on.

I'm running Django version 1.4.8.  Below is the traceback.

Should I just ignore this?

Peter

Traceback (most recent call last):      File "/home/peter/django-ductedit/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 92, in get_response      response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)      File "/home/peter/django-ductedit/django/contrib/flatpages/views.py", line 23, in flatpage      return HttpResponseRedirect("%s/" % request.path)      File "/home/peter/django-ductedit/django/http/__init__.py", line 407, in __init__      self['Location'] = redirect_to      File "/home/peter/django-ductedit/django/http/__init__.py", line 320, in __setitem__      header, value = self._convert_to_ascii(header, value)      File "/home/peter/django-ductedit/django/http/__init__.py", line 309, in _convert_to_ascii      value = value.encode('us-ascii')    UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 10-13: ordinal not in range(128), HTTP response headers must be in US-ASCII format      <WSGIRequest  GET:<QueryDict: {}>,  POST:<QueryDict: {}>,  COOKIES:{},  META:{'DOCUMENT_ROOT': '/home/peter/public_html/',   'GATEWAY_INTERFACE': 'CGI/1.1',   'HTTP_ACCEPT': '*/*',   'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, deflate',   'HTTP_HOST': 'www.plandroid.com',   'HTTP_REFERER': 'http://www.baidu.com',   'HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0',   'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR': '183.60.243.188',   'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO': 'http',   'HTTP_X_HOST': 'www.plandroid.com',   'PATH_INFO': u'/template/\u8bf7\u52ff\u5220\u96646kbbs\u6a21\u677f.txt',   'PATH_TRANSLATED': '/home/peter/public_html//template/\xe8\xaf\xb7\xe5\x8b\xbf\xe5\x88\xa0\xe9\x99\xa46kbbs\xe6\xa8\xa1\xe6\x9d\xbf.txt',   'QUERY_STRING': '',   'REDIRECT_STATUS': '200',   'REDIRECT_URI': '/django.fcgi/template/\xe8\xaf\xb7\xe5\x8b\xbf\xe5\x88\xa0\xe9\x99\xa46kbbs\xe6\xa8\xa1\xe6\x9d\xbf.txt',   'REMOTE_ADDR': '183.60.243.188',   'REMOTE_PORT': '15624',   'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET',   'REQUEST_URI': '/template/\xe8\xaf\xb7\xe5\x8b\xbf\xe5\x88\xa0\xe9\x99\xa46kbbs\xe6\xa8\xa1\xe6\x9d\xbf.txt',   'SCRIPT_FILENAME': '/home/peter/public_html/django.fcgi',   'SCRIPT_NAME': u'',   'SERVER_ADDR': '127.0.0.1',   'SERVER_NAME': 'www.plandroid.com',   'SERVER_PORT': '62305',   'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.0',   'SERVER_SOFTWARE': 'lighttpd',   'wsgi.errors': <flup.server.fcgi_base.TeeOutputStream object at 0xa5cf44c>,   'wsgi.input': <flup.server.fcgi_base.InputStream object at 0xa5cf22c>,   'wsgi.multiprocess': True,   'wsgi.multithread': False,   'wsgi.run_once': False,   'wsgi.url_scheme': 'http',   'wsgi.version': (1, 0)}>    

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