Description of problem: When running Python SDK in debug mode, Python SDK raises following exception: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 7: invalid start byte Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.0.2 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run following script: --------------------------------- import logging import ovirtsdk4 as sdk import ovirtsdk4.types as types logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, filename='example.log') connection = sdk.Connection( url='https://engine.example.com/ovirt-engine/api', username='admin@internal', password='password', ca_file='ca.pem', debug=True, log=logging.getLogger(), ) vms_service = connection.system_service().vms_service() vms = vms_service.list() connection.close() --------------------------------- Actual results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/__init__.py", line 637, in _curl_debug text = data.decode('utf-8') if type(data) == bytes else data File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xee in position 5: invalid continuation byte Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/list_vms.py", line 44, in <module> vms = vms_service.list() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/services.py", line 25275, in list response = self._connection.send(request) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/__init__.py", line 276, in send return self.__send(request) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/__init__.py", line 298, in __send self._sso_token = self._get_access_token() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirtsdk4/__init__.py", line 469, in _get_access_token sso_response['error'] ovirtsdk4.Error: Error during SSO authentication unsupported_grant_type : The authorization grant type is not supported by the authorization server. Expected results: Script successfully executed. Additional info: The problem is with pycurl version python-pycurl-7.19.0-17.el7.x86_64 and lower. This problem was fixed in python-pycurl-7.19.0-18.el7.x86_64 tracked in following bug 1153321. To support version python-pycurl-7.19.0-17 and lower we decided to fixed this problem using COPYPOSTFIELDS instead of POSTFIELDS to send HTTP POST data.