From 8419eee4b207fa8585c1925e761a3c5b446963d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JonnyWong16 <9099342+JonnyWong16@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 15:41:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Catch exception when decoding server response message

---
 plexpy/request.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plexpy/request.py b/plexpy/request.py
index c2f0967f..82c8cee0 100644
--- a/plexpy/request.py
+++ b/plexpy/request.py
@@ -308,7 +308,10 @@ def server_message(response, return_msg=False):
         message = response.content.strip()
 
     if message:
-        message = str(message, 'utf-8', 'replace')
+        try:
+            message = message.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
+        except (UnicodeDecodeError, AttributeError):
+            pass
 
         # Truncate message if it is too long.
         if len(message) > 150: