diff --git a/lib/core/common.py b/lib/core/common.py
index cbf92ccce..245763b9b 100755
--- a/lib/core/common.py
+++ b/lib/core/common.py
@@ -3337,6 +3337,8 @@ def findPageForms(content, url, raise_=False, addToTargets=False):
 
     try:
         forms = ParseResponse(response, backwards_compat=False)
+    except UnicodeError:
+        pass
     except ParseError:
         warnMsg = "badly formed HTML at the given URL ('%s'). Going to filter it" % url
         logger.warning(warnMsg)
diff --git a/thirdparty/clientform/clientform.py b/thirdparty/clientform/clientform.py
index 0169c5aaf..3ac1534f5 100644
--- a/thirdparty/clientform/clientform.py
+++ b/thirdparty/clientform/clientform.py
@@ -1124,6 +1124,7 @@ def _ParseFileEx(file, base_uri,
         if action is None:
             action = base_uri
         else:
+            action = unicode(action, "utf8") if action and not isinstance(action, unicode) else action
             action = _urljoin(base_uri, action)
         # would be nice to make HTMLForm class (form builder) pluggable
         form = HTMLForm(