diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0c21feada4..211b704860 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,14 +23,17 @@ Update to Python 3
 
 ### Web
 
-New golden-layout based Webclient UI (@security-related)
+- Change webclient to use Autobahn websocket library (which is actually maintained)
+
+#### New golden-layout based Webclient UI (@friarzen)
 - Features
   - Much slicker behavior and more professional look
   - Allows tabbing as well as click and drag of panes in any grid position
   - Renaming tabs, assignments of data tags and output types are simple per-pane menus now
   - Any number of input panes, with separate histories
   - Button UI (disabled in JS by default)
-Web/Django standard initiative (@strikaco)
+
+#### Web/Django standard initiative (@strikaco)
 - Features
   - Adds a series of web-based forms and generic class-based views
     - Accounts
@@ -79,7 +82,6 @@ Web/Django standard initiative (@strikaco)
   raises a KeyError exception if query gave 0 or >1 results.
 - `evennia.prototypes.spawner` can now spawn by passing a `prototype_key`
 
-
 ### Typeclasses
 
 - Add new methods on all typeclasses, useful specifically for object handling from the website/admin:
diff --git a/evennia/server/portal/mssp.py b/evennia/server/portal/mssp.py
index 5442ccc320..cf80298c77 100644
--- a/evennia/server/portal/mssp.py
+++ b/evennia/server/portal/mssp.py
@@ -196,9 +196,9 @@ class Mssp(object):
                 value = value()
             if utils.is_iter(value):
                 for partval in value:
-                    varlist += MSSP_VAR + str(variable) + MSSP_VAL + str(partval)
+                    varlist += MSSP_VAR + bytes(variable, 'utf-8') + MSSP_VAL + bytes(partval, 'utf-8')
             else:
-                varlist += MSSP_VAR + str(variable) + MSSP_VAL + str(value)
+                varlist += MSSP_VAR + bytes(variable, 'utf-8') + MSSP_VAL + bytes(value, 'utf-8')
 
         # send to crawler by subnegotiation
         self.protocol.requestNegotiation(MSSP, varlist)
diff --git a/evennia/server/portal/webclient.py b/evennia/server/portal/webclient.py
index ad7b56a3d6..b238c09d2d 100644
--- a/evennia/server/portal/webclient.py
+++ b/evennia/server/portal/webclient.py
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ class WebSocketClient(WebSocketServerProtocol, Session):
         client_address = client_address[0] if client_address else None
         self.init_session("websocket", client_address, self.factory.sessionhandler)
 
+        from evennia.utils import logger
+        try:
+            csessid = self.http_request_uri.split("?", 1)[1]
+            logger.log_msg("csessid: ", csessid)
+        except Exception:
+            logger.log_trace(str(self.__dict__))
+
         csession = self.get_client_session()
         uid = csession and csession.get("webclient_authenticated_uid", None)
         if uid: