correct utf8 conversion for urls

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/module/network/HTTPRequest.py b/module/network/HTTPRequest.py
index a0b419763..2f084efb5 100644
--- a/module/network/HTTPRequest.py
+++ b/module/network/HTTPRequest.py
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ from cStringIO import StringIO
 from module.plugins.Hoster import Abort
 
 def myquote(url):
-    return quote(url.encode('utf_8') if isinstance(url, unicode) else url, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]")
+    return quote(url.encode('utf8') if isinstance(url, unicode) else url, safe="%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]")
     
 def myurlencode(data):
     data = dict(data)
-    return urlencode(dict((x.encode('utf_8') if isinstance(x, unicode) else x, \
-        y.encode('utf_8') if isinstance(y, unicode) else y ) for x, y in data.iteritems()))
+    return urlencode(dict((x.encode('utf8') if isinstance(x, unicode) else x, \
+        y.encode('utf8') if isinstance(y, unicode) else y ) for x, y in data.iteritems()))
 
 bad_headers = range(400, 404) + range(405, 418) + range(500, 506)
 
diff --git a/module/plugins/Base.py b/module/plugins/Base.py
index 53840ee18..48a3707b1 100644
--- a/module/plugins/Base.py
+++ b/module/plugins/Base.py
@@ -167,8 +167,6 @@ class Base(object):
         """
         if not hasattr(self, "req"): raise Exception("Plugin type does not have Request attribute.")
 
-        if type(url) == unicode: url = str(url)
-
         res = self.req.load(url, get, post, ref, cookies, just_header, decode=decode)
 
         if self.core.debug: