force application key to bytes.

dusty-phillips · Jan 24, 2010 · d78828d · d78828d
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commit d78828d
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/psyclone/web.py b/psyclone/web.py
@@ -297,8 +297,9 @@ def get_secure_cookie(self, name):
 
     def _cookie_signature(self, *parts):
         self.require_setting("cookie_secret", "secure cookies")
-        hash = hmac.new(self.application.settings["cookie_secret"],
-                        digestmod=hashlib.sha1)
+        hash = hmac.new(force_bytes(
+            self.application.settings["cookie_secret"]),
+            digestmod=hashlib.sha1)
         for part in parts:
             part = force_bytes(part)
             logging.debug("cookie signature part: {0}".format(part))