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| -rw-r--r-- | OpenSSL/SSL.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/OpenSSL/SSL.py b/OpenSSL/SSL.py index fe13c4f..990a370 100644 --- a/OpenSSL/SSL.py +++ b/OpenSSL/SSL.py @@ -379,8 +379,11 @@ class Context(object): :param filetype: (optional) The encoding of the file, default is PEM :return: None """ + if isinstance(certfile, _text_type): + # Perhaps sys.getfilesystemencoding() could be better? + certfile = certfile.encode("utf-8") if not isinstance(certfile, bytes): - raise TypeError("certfile must be a byte string") + raise TypeError("certfile must be bytes or unicode") if not isinstance(filetype, int): raise TypeError("filetype must be an integer") |