--- a/mercurial/hgweb/request.py	Fri Sep 04 05:57:58 2015 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/hgweb/request.py	Tue Sep 08 14:56:29 2015 -0400
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
                     self.headers = [(k, v) for (k, v) in self.headers if
                                     k in ('Date', 'ETag', 'Expires',
                                           'Cache-Control', 'Vary')]
-                status = statusmessage(status.code, status.message)
+                status = statusmessage(status.code, str(status))
             elif status == 200:
                 status = '200 Script output follows'
             elif isinstance(status, int):