diff --git a/breakpad.py b/breakpad.py
index f8f1a1b5a..21b13f801 100644
--- a/breakpad.py
+++ b/breakpad.py
@@ -27,6 +27,34 @@ DEFAULT_URL = 'https://chromium-status.appspot.com/breakpad'
 _REGISTERED = False
 
 
+def FormatException(e):
+  """Returns a human readable form of an exception.
+
+  Adds the maximum number of interesting information in the safest way."""
+  try:
+    out = repr(e)
+  except Exception:
+    out = ''
+  try:
+    out = str(e)
+    if isinstance(e, Exception):
+      # urllib exceptions, usually the HTTP headers.
+      if hasattr(e, 'headers'):
+        out += '\nHeaders: %s' % e.headers
+      if hasattr(e, 'url'):
+        out += '\nUrl: %s' % e.url
+      if hasattr(e, 'msg'):
+        out += '\nMsg: %s' % e.msg
+      # The web page in some urllib exceptions.
+      if hasattr(e, 'read') and callable(e.read):
+        out += '\nread(): %s' % e.read()
+      if hasattr(e, 'info') and callable(e.info):
+        out += '\ninfo(): %s' % e.info()
+  except Exception:
+    pass
+  return out
+
+
 def SendStack(last_tb, stack, url=None):
   """Sends the stack trace to the breakpad server."""
   if not url:
@@ -35,19 +63,13 @@ def SendStack(last_tb, stack, url=None):
   try:
     params = {
         'args': sys.argv,
-        'stack': stack,
+        'stack': stack[0:4096],
         'user': getpass.getuser(),
-        'exception': last_tb,
+        'exception': FormatException(last_tb),
         'host': socket.getfqdn(),
         'cwd': os.getcwd(),
     }
-    # No exception type(s) specified
     # pylint: disable=W0702
-    try:
-      # That may not always work.
-      params['exception'] = str(last_tb)
-    except:
-      pass
     print('\n'.join('  %s: %s' % (k, v[0:50]) for k, v in params.iteritems()))
     request = urllib.urlopen(url, urllib.urlencode(params))
     print(request.read())
diff --git a/gclient_utils.py b/gclient_utils.py
index 5ab1ed509..718284852 100644
--- a/gclient_utils.py
+++ b/gclient_utils.py
@@ -701,8 +701,6 @@ class ExecutionQueue(object):
       """Runs in its own thread."""
       logging.debug('running(%s)' % self.item.name)
       work_queue = self.kwargs['work_queue']
-      # It's necessary to catch all exceptions.
-      # pylint: disable=W0703
       try:
         self.item.run(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
       except Exception:
diff --git a/pylintrc b/pylintrc
index 92da7be07..371ff4319 100644
--- a/pylintrc
+++ b/pylintrc
@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ load-plugins=
 # W0511: TODO
 # W0603: Using the global statement
 # W0613: Unused argument ''
+# W0703: Catch "Exception"
 # W6501: Specify string format arguments as logging function parameters
-disable=C0103,C0111,C0302,I0011,R0401,R0801,R0901,R0902,R0903,R0911,R0912,R0913,R0914,R0915,W0122,W0141,W0142,W0402,W0511,W0603,W0613,W6501
+disable=C0103,C0111,C0302,I0011,R0401,R0801,R0901,R0902,R0903,R0911,R0912,R0913,R0914,R0915,W0122,W0141,W0142,W0402,W0511,W0603,W0613,W0703,W6501
 
 
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