Description of problem:

Performing a standard repo sync fails with the following error:

  'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 73-74: ordinal not in
range(128)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

BeautifulSoup==3.0.8.1
CherryPy==3.2.2
M2Crypto==0.21.1
PyPAM==0.5.0
PyXML==0.8.4
PyYAML==3.10
SOAPpy==0.11.6
Twisted-Core==8.2.0
Twisted-Web==8.2.0
backports.ssl-match-hostname==3.2a3
beah==0.6.45.dev201306062320
chardet==2.0.1
distribute==0.6.10
ethtool==0.6
eventlet==0.9.17
fpconst==0.7.3
greenlet==0.3.1
grinder==0.1.16
httplib2==0.7.7
iniparse==0.3.1
isodate==0.5.0
iwlib==1.0
nectar==0.99
oauth2==1.5.170
okaara==1.0.32
ordereddict==1.1
policycoreutils-default-encoding==0.1
pulp-node-admin-extensions==2.1.0
pulp-node-common==2.0.0
pulp-node-parent==2.1.0
pulp-puppet-common==2.1.0
pulp-puppet-extensions-admin==2.1.0
pulp-puppet-plugins==2.1.0
pulp-rpm==2.0.0
pulp-rpm-plugins==2.2.0a
pyOpenSSL==0.10
pycurl==7.19.0
pygpgme==0.1
pyliblzma==0.5.3
pymongo==2.1.1
python-dateutil==1.4.1
python-dmidecode==3.10.13
python-ldap==2.3.10
qpid-python==0.14
requests==1.1.0
rhnlib==2.5.22
rhsm==1.8.0
rhts==4.0
setools==1.0
simplejson==2.0.9
six==1.1.0
urlgrabber==3.9.1
urllib3==1.5
web.py==0.37
yum-metadata-parser==1.1.2
zope.interface==3.5.2

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:

# cat > /etc/sysconfig/iptables <<EOF
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 5671 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 5672 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
-A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
COMMIT
EOF

# service iptables start
# service iptables status
# restorecon -RvvF /

# subscription-manager  register --force --username=$USERNAME --password=$PASSWORD --autosubscribe

# cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/pulp.repo <<EOF
[pulp]
name=Pulp Nightly
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/v2/beta/6Server/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF

# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# yum repolist
# yum-config-manager --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
# yum-config-manager --disable \*jb-eap\*
# yes|yum groupinstall -y pulp-server
# yes|yum groupinstall -y  pulp-admin
# yes|yum install pulp-nodes-parent pulp-nodes-admin-extensions

# pulp-admin login -u admin -p admin
Successfully logged in. Session certificate will expire at Jul 17 16:17:43 2013
GMT.

# pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id zoo --feed http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/demo_repos/zoo/ 
Successfully created repository [zoo]

# pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id zoo
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                     Synchronizing Repository [zoo]
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

This command may be exited by pressing ctrl+c without affecting the actual
operation on the server.

Downloading metadata...
[\]
... failed

'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 73-74: ordinal not in
range(128)


Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

pulp.log shows:

2013-07-10 12:18:14,846 urllib3.connectionpool:INFO: Starting new HTTP connection (1): repos.fedorapeople.org
2013-07-10 12:18:15,211 pulp_rpm.plugins.importers.yum.sync:ERROR: sync failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp_rpm/plugins/importers/yum/sync.py", line 109, in run
    metadata_files = self.get_metadata()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp_rpm/plugins/importers/yum/sync.py", line 192, in get_metadata
    metadata_files.download_repomd()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pulp_rpm/plugins/importers/yum/repomd/metadata.py", line 137, in download_repomd
    self.downloader.download([repomd_request])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nectar/downloaders/revent.py", line 83, in download
    for report in pool.imap(self._fetch, request_list, _session_generator()):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet/greenpool.py", line 232, in next