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diff --git a/hippotat b/hippotat
index 97d40a7..6aa3121 100755
--- a/hippotat
+++ b/hippotat
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ from hippotatlib import *
 
 import twisted.web
 import twisted.web.client
+import urllib.parse
 
 import io
 
@@ -245,6 +246,17 @@ class Client():
 
 clients = [ ]
 
+def encode_url(urlstr):
+  # Oh, this is a disaster.  We're given a URL as a `str', but the underlying
+  # machinery insists on having `bytes'.  Assume we've been given a sensible
+  # URL, with escaping in all of the necessary places, except that it may
+  # contain non-ASCII characters: then encode as UTF-8 and squash the top-
+  # bit-set bytes down to percent escapes.
+  #
+  # This conses like it's going out of fashion, but it gets the job done.
+  return b''.join(bytes([b]) if b < 128 else '%%%02X' % b
+                  for b in urlstr.encode('utf-8'))
+
 def process_cfg(_opts, putative_servers, putative_clients):
   global clients
 
@@ -269,7 +281,7 @@ def process_cfg(_opts, putative_servers, putative_clients):
       try: c.ifname     = srch(cfg_get_raw, 'ifname_client')
       except NoOptionError: pass
 
-      try: c.url = srch(cfg.get,'url')
+      try: c.url = encode_url(srch(cfg.get,'url'))
       except NoOptionError:
         cfg_process_saddrs(c, ss)
         c.url = c.saddrs[0].url()