From e86a01a9c47547c91b2962273a52632067f107b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Mottram <bob@freedombone.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 09:57:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Non-binary encoding for header list

---
 httpsig.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/httpsig.py b/httpsig.py
index 3ae13d0e2..858472675 100644
--- a/httpsig.py
+++ b/httpsig.py
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ def verifyPostHeaders(httpPrefix: str,publicKeyPem: str,headers: dict, \
                 f'(request-target): {method.lower()} {path}')
         elif signedHeader == 'digest':
             bodyDigest = \
-                base64.b64encode(SHA256.new(messageBodyJsonStr.encode()).digest())
+                base64.b64encode(SHA256.new(messageBodyJsonStr.encode()).digest()).encode('utf-8')
             signedHeaderList.append(f'digest: SHA-256={bodyDigest}')
         else:
             if headers.get(signedHeader):