Stop passing bytes when dumping JSON (#7799)

3 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/handlers/identity.py b/synapse/handlers/identity.py
index 4ba0042768..701233ebb4 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/identity.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/identity.py
@@ -251,10 +251,10 @@ class IdentityHandler(BaseHandler):
         # 'browser-like' HTTPS.
         auth_headers = self.federation_http_client.build_auth_headers(
             destination=None,
-            method="POST",
+            method=b"POST",
             url_bytes=url_bytes,
             content=content,
-            destination_is=id_server,
+            destination_is=id_server.encode("ascii"),
         )
         headers = {b"Authorization": auth_headers}
 
diff --git a/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
index 18f6a8fd29..58aed5fd96 100644
--- a/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
+++ b/synapse/http/matrixfederationclient.py
@@ -562,13 +562,17 @@ class MatrixFederationHttpClient(object):
         Returns:
             list[bytes]: a list of headers to be added as "Authorization:" headers
         """
-        request = {"method": method, "uri": url_bytes, "origin": self.server_name}
+        request = {
+            "method": method.decode("ascii"),
+            "uri": url_bytes.decode("ascii"),
+            "origin": self.server_name,
+        }
 
         if destination is not None:
-            request["destination"] = destination
+            request["destination"] = destination.decode("ascii")
 
         if destination_is is not None:
-            request["destination_is"] = destination_is
+            request["destination_is"] = destination_is.decode("ascii")
 
         if content is not None:
             request["content"] = content
diff --git a/synapse/rest/client/v1/voip.py b/synapse/rest/client/v1/voip.py
index 747d46eac2..50277c6cf6 100644
--- a/synapse/rest/client/v1/voip.py
+++ b/synapse/rest/client/v1/voip.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class VoipRestServlet(RestServlet):
             # We need to use standard padded base64 encoding here
             # encode_base64 because we need to add the standard padding to get the
             # same result as the TURN server.
-            password = base64.b64encode(mac.digest())
+            password = base64.b64encode(mac.digest()).decode("ascii")
 
         elif turnUris and turnUsername and turnPassword and userLifetime:
             username = turnUsername