Update __init__.py

There is a problem with headers when a binary string is passed (like b'Authorization')
I've added a function to decode such strings.
It is not an elegant solution, but it works for me

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/python3/httplib2/__init__.py b/python3/httplib2/__init__.py
index 43f7419..b7b00b1 100644
--- a/python3/httplib2/__init__.py
+++ b/python3/httplib2/__init__.py
@@ -192,8 +192,13 @@ def safename(filename):
 
 NORMALIZE_SPACE = re.compile(r'(?:\r\n)?[ \t]+')
 def _normalize_headers(headers):
-    return dict([ (key.lower(), NORMALIZE_SPACE.sub(value, ' ').strip())  for (key, value) in headers.items()])
+    return dict([ (_convert_byte_str(key).lower(), NORMALIZE_SPACE.sub(_convert_byte_str(value), ' ').strip())  for (key, value) in headers.items()])
 
+def _convert_byte_str(s):
+    if not isinstance(s, str):
+        return str(s, 'utf-8')
+    return s
+    
 def _parse_cache_control(headers):
     retval = {}
     if 'cache-control' in headers: