712501 - Error generating activation key for unicode email

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox Affiliates Graveyard :: affiliates.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "/data/www/affiliates.mozilla.org/affiliates-app/vendor/src/django/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 111, in get_response
   response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)

 File "/data/www/affiliates.mozilla.org/affiliates-app/vendor/src/django-session-csrf/session_csrf/__init__.py", line 107, in wrapper
   response = f(request, *args, **kw)

 File "/data/www/affiliates.mozilla.org/affiliates-app/apps/users/views.py", line 54, in register
   form.cleaned_data['registration_password'])

 File "/data/www/affiliates.mozilla.org/affiliates-app/apps/users/models.py", line 89, in create_profile
   activation_key = hmac.new(salt, email, hashlib.sha1).hexdigest()

 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hmac.py", line 133, in new
   return HMAC(key, msg, digestmod)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hmac.py", line 75, in __init__
   self.update(msg)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/hmac.py", line 83, in update
   self.inner.update(msg)

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf1' in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

Comment 1

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

A similar issue: https://github.com/fwenzel/django-sha2/compare/b73039c...b71fd54

Comment 2

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

Old-style auth is going away in bug 945867. WONTFIX!

Comment 3

[Matt Brandt [:mbrandt]]

yaya for wontfix .. verified