From f543a0f989cbe13e2e80e1870e3d0a318ac84e24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thorge Petersen <petersen@rz.uni-kiel.de>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 12:40:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] No need to decode a string to ASCII explicitly because py3
 strings are unicode by default

---
 ckanext/archiver/tasks.py | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ckanext/archiver/tasks.py b/ckanext/archiver/tasks.py
index 06a1758c..ca74ec26 100644
--- a/ckanext/archiver/tasks.py
+++ b/ckanext/archiver/tasks.py
@@ -650,16 +650,6 @@ def tidy_url(url):
     It may raise LinkInvalidError if the URL has a problem.
     '''
 
-    # Find out if it has unicode characters, and if it does, quote them
-    # so we are left with an ascii string
-    try:
-        url = url.decode('ascii')
-    except Exception:
-        parts = list(urlparse(url))
-        parts[2] = quote(parts[2].encode('utf-8'))
-        url = urlunparse(parts)
-    url = str(url)
-
     # strip whitespace from url
     # (browsers appear to do this)
     url = url.strip()