[issue11898] Sending binary data with a POST request in httplib can cause Unicode exceptions

Ion Scerbatiuc added the comment: Hello, I would like to subscribe to the issue. The problem seems to indeed exist in Python 2.7. What I'm doing is to proxy HTTP requests (using Django) and the PUT / POST requests are working fine on Python 2.6 but are failing on 2.7 with the

[issue11898] Sending binary data with a POST request in httplib can cause Unicode exceptions

Ion Scerbatiuc added the comment: Hello again, After some digging I found that the "real" problem was because the provided URL was a unicode string and the concatenation was failing. Maybe this is not a big deal, but I think we should least do a proper assertion for the provided UR