UnicodeDecodeError issue

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Ferrous Cranus <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ye i'm aware that i need to define variables before i try to make use of them.
> I have study all of your examples and then re-view my code and i can *assure* you that the line statement that tied to set the 'host' variable is very early at the top of the script(of course after imports), and the cur.execute comes after.
>
> The problem here is not what you say, that i try to drink k a coffee before actually making one first but rather than i cannot drink the coffee although i know *i have tried* to make one first.
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> i will upload the code for you to prove my sayings at pastebin.
>
> http://pastebin.com/J97guApQ

You're setting host inside a try/except block. Are you getting
exceptions that prevent it from being set, perhaps?

Also... do you seriously (a) block access if no Referer: header, and
(b) permit that access anyway if the user has a non-blank cookie named
'admin'? Seriously??

ChrisA