X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/bc94b6a76ebd07d64bac78776b7d10d6e1265a28..7f5c2cfa5a987d887f42d6db95f80f42ceb3b5ff:/plugins/proxy.py

diff --git a/plugins/proxy.py b/plugins/proxy.py
index d70a967a5..b61eb466c 100755
--- a/plugins/proxy.py
+++ b/plugins/proxy.py
@@ -158,15 +158,24 @@ class _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler(object):
     def send_rpc(self, cmd, in_fd, out_fd, *args, **kwargs):
         xml = _xmlrpc_client.dumps(sum(kwargs.items(), args), cmd)
         self._debug_fn(
-            "calling ikiwiki procedure `{0}': [{1}]".format(cmd, xml))
-        _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler._write(out_fd, xml.encode('utf8'))
+            "calling ikiwiki procedure `{0}': [{1}]".format(cmd, repr(xml)))
+        # ensure that encoded is a str (bytestring in Python 2, Unicode in 3)
+        if str is bytes and not isinstance(xml, str):
+            encoded = xml.encode('utf8')
+        else:
+            encoded = xml
+        _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler._write(out_fd, encoded)
 
         self._debug_fn('reading response from ikiwiki...')
 
-        xml = _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler._read(in_fd).decode('utf8')
+        response = _IkiWikiExtPluginXMLRPCHandler._read(in_fd)
+        if str is bytes and not isinstance(response, str):
+            xml = response.encode('utf8')
+        else:
+            xml = response
         self._debug_fn(
             'read response to procedure {0} from ikiwiki: [{1}]'.format(
-                cmd, xml))
+                cmd, repr(xml)))
         if xml is None:
             # ikiwiki is going down
             self._debug_fn('ikiwiki is going down, and so are we...')