diff --git a/daemon.py b/daemon.py
index 3272e1734..7e23d07f1 100644
--- a/daemon.py
+++ b/daemon.py
@@ -1651,13 +1651,15 @@ class PubServer(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
with open(followingFilename, 'r') as followingFile:
msg = followingFile.read()
followingList = msg.split('\n').sort()
- followingListHtml = ''
- for followingAddress in followingList:
- followingListHtml += '' + followingAddress + '
'
- followingListHtml += ''
- msg = followingListHtml.encode('utf-8')
+ print('followingList: ' + str(followingList))
+ if followingList:
+ followingListHtml = ''
+ for followingAddress in followingList:
+ followingListHtml += '' + followingAddress + '
'
+ followingListHtml += ''
+ msg = followingListHtml
self._login_headers('text/html', len(msg), callingDomain)
- self._write(msg)
+ self._write(msg.encode('utf-8'))
return
if self.path.startswith('/about'):