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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/downloader/http.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py
index 11294d106..af405b950 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ class HttpFD(FileDownloader):
if self.params.get('xattr_set_filesize', False) and data_len is not None:
try:
- write_xattr(tmpfilename, 'user.ytdl.filesize', str(data_len))
+ write_xattr(tmpfilename, 'user.ytdl.filesize', str(data_len).encode('utf-8'))
except (XAttrUnavailableError, XAttrMetadataError) as err:
self.report_error('unable to set filesize xattr: %s' % str(err))