From: pukkandan <redacted>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 21:48:10 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: [utils] HTTPHeaderDict: Handle byte values
X-Git-Tag: 2023.09.24~110
X-Git-Url: https://jfr.im/git/yt-dlp.git/commitdiff_plain/3f7965105d8d2048359e67c1e8b8ebd51588143b?ds=sidebyside

[utils] HTTPHeaderDict: Handle byte values
---

diff --git a/test/test_utils.py b/test/test_utils.py
index 453a01a1c..91e3ffd39 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -2344,6 +2344,8 @@ def test_traverse_obj(self):
 
     def test_http_header_dict(self):
         headers = HTTPHeaderDict()
+        headers['ytdl-test'] = b'0'
+        self.assertEqual(list(headers.items()), [('Ytdl-Test', '0')])
         headers['ytdl-test'] = 1
         self.assertEqual(list(headers.items()), [('Ytdl-Test', '1')])
         headers['Ytdl-test'] = '2'
diff --git a/yt_dlp/utils/networking.py b/yt_dlp/utils/networking.py
index bbcea84d2..ba0493cc2 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/utils/networking.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/utils/networking.py
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         self.update(kwargs)
 
     def __setitem__(self, key, value):
+        if isinstance(value, bytes):
+            value = value.decode('latin-1')
         super().__setitem__(key.title(), str(value))
 
     def __getitem__(self, key):