Update Lib/urllib/request.py

barneygale · zooba · web-flow · commit 4bbeef68abb1 · 2025-05-05T12:52:54.000+01:00
Co-authored-by: Steve Dower &lt;steve.dower@microsoft.com&gt;
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@ def _is_local_authority(authority, resolve):
         return False
     try:
         address = socket.gethostbyname(authority)
-    except (socket.gaierror, AttributeError):
+    except (socket.gaierror, AttributeError, UnicodeEncodeError):
         return False
     return address in FileHandler().get_names()
 
