Merge pull request #428 from bogdan-ds/remote_encoding_fix

Using the binary response content of requests to avoid incorrect metadata encoding

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/saml2/mdstore.py b/src/saml2/mdstore.py
index eff75c8b..72825ea8 100644
--- a/src/saml2/mdstore.py
+++ b/src/saml2/mdstore.py
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ class MetaDataExtern(InMemoryMetaData):
         """
         response = self.http.send(self.url)
         if response.status_code == 200:
-            _txt = response.text.encode("utf-8")
+            _txt = response.content
             return self.parse_and_check_signature(_txt)
         else:
             logger.info("Response status: %s", response.status_code)
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ class MetaDataMDX(InMemoryMetaData):
             response = requests.get(mdx_url, headers={
                 'Accept': SAML_METADATA_CONTENT_TYPE})
             if response.status_code == 200:
-                _txt = response.text.encode("utf-8")
+                _txt = response.content
 
                 if self.parse_and_check_signature(_txt):
                     return self.entity[item]