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Diffstat (limited to 'src/mailman/testing/helpers.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/mailman/testing/helpers.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/mailman/testing/helpers.py b/src/mailman/testing/helpers.py index 1de0e98cf..882e69cd9 100644 --- a/src/mailman/testing/helpers.py +++ b/src/mailman/testing/helpers.py @@ -333,7 +333,10 @@ def call_api(url, data=None, method=None, username=None, password=None): basic_auth = '{0}:{1}'.format( (config.webservice.admin_user if username is None else username), (config.webservice.admin_pass if password is None else password)) - headers['Authorization'] = 'Basic ' + b64encode(basic_auth) + # b64encode() requires a bytes, but the header value must be str. Do the + # necessary conversion dances. + token = b64encode(basic_auth.encode('utf-8')).decode('ascii') + headers['Authorization'] = 'Basic ' + token response, content = Http().request(url, method, data, headers) # If we did not get a 2xx status code, make this look like a urllib2 # exception, for backward compatibility with existing doctests. |