From eb159c0b18f1ce7c9453c1876c6b6decc7cec0b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christophe Dumez <chris@qbittorrent.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:55:12 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Search: Fix GZip decompression code

---
 src/searchengine/nova3/helpers.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/searchengine/nova3/helpers.py b/src/searchengine/nova3/helpers.py
index d3960dda0..13b932ba6 100644
--- a/src/searchengine/nova3/helpers.py
+++ b/src/searchengine/nova3/helpers.py
@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ def download_file(url, referer=None):
     response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
     dat = response.read()
     # Check if it is gzipped
-    if dat[:2] == '\037\213':
+    if dat[:2] == b'\x1f\x8b':
         # Data is gzip encoded, decode it
-        compressedstream = io.StringIO(dat)
+        compressedstream = io.BytesIO(dat)
         gzipper = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=compressedstream)
         extracted_data = gzipper.read()
         dat = extracted_data