From 8cb545b779fe03217216ba5a71c898022cc8fed2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Sampson <adrian@radbox.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:30:33 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Possibly fix #1805: bytes headers for requests

---
 beetsplug/fetchart.py | 4 ++--
 docs/changelog.rst    | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/beetsplug/fetchart.py b/beetsplug/fetchart.py
index fe32ab9ad..57d8e4c46 100644
--- a/beetsplug/fetchart.py
+++ b/beetsplug/fetchart.py
@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ def _logged_get(log, *args, **kwargs):
     else:
         message = 'getting URL'
 
-    req = requests.Request('GET', *args, **req_kwargs)
+    req = requests.Request(b'GET', *args, **req_kwargs)
     with requests.Session() as s:
-        s.headers = {'User-Agent': 'beets'}
+        s.headers = {b'User-Agent': b'beets'}
         prepped = s.prepare_request(req)
         log.debug('{}: {}', message, prepped.url)
         return s.send(prepped, **send_kwargs)
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 808010aae..2a27987f1 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ Fixes:
   (like the :ref:`modify-cmd` command). :bug:`1804`
 * The :ref:`stats-cmd` command no longer crashes when files are missing or
   inaccessible. :bug:`1806`
+* :doc:`/plugins/fetchart`: Possibly fix a Unicode-related crash when using
+  some versions of pyOpenSSL. :bug:`1805`
 
 .. _beets.io: http://beets.io/
 .. _Beetbox: https://github.com/beetbox