The Openstack Compute API returns a series of headers as a result of create operation. The location header is being returned as a unicode value which is not compliant with the RFC for HTTP.
While not a problem when running with nova-api services directly the problem manifests itself if a user was to front the API with something that requires rfc compliant headers to be returned, such as Apache. Example output below.
[Fri Feb 17 16:09:34 2012] [error] 2012-02-17 16:09:34,004 INFO nova.api.openstack.wsgi [req-3b2d850c-8d96-4afd-b0ba-d2f6ede6dee8 admin 1] https://x:8774/v1.1/1/servers returned with HTTP 202
[Fri Feb 17 16:09:34 2012] [error] [client 184.106.53.110] mod_wsgi (pid=10356): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/var/lib/nova/nova-api.wsgi'.
[Fri Feb 17 16:09:34 2012] [error] [client 184.106.53.110] TypeError: expected byte string object for header value, value of type unicode found
184.106.53.110 - - [17/Feb/2012:16:09:33 -0600] "POST /v1.1/1/servers HTTP/1.1" 500 2448 "-" "python-novaclient"
In the above the server will complete the build, but novaclient will return an n/a (HTTP 500).
Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https:/