From 181397713308c5c6c514091605ba3086dc548986 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dgtlmoon <dgtlmoon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 13:40:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Encode requests POST as UTF-8 if it has no encoding/basic
 string #1315 #2309

---
 changedetectionio/content_fetchers/requests.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/changedetectionio/content_fetchers/requests.py b/changedetectionio/content_fetchers/requests.py
index 5e984c5e..2e952c9c 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/content_fetchers/requests.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/content_fetchers/requests.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class fetcher(Fetcher):
             session.mount('file://', FileAdapter())
 
         r = session.request(method=request_method,
-                            data=request_body,
+                            data=request_body.encode('utf-8') if type(request_body) is str else request_body,
                             url=url,
                             headers=request_headers,
                             timeout=timeout,