From: Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmentelat@sophia.inria.fr>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:18:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: for python-2.6
X-Git-Tag: PLCAPI-4.3-32~2
X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?p=plcapi.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c70d455693665a29ab0eb31a3929b98b42bfe2ea

for python-2.6
---

diff --git a/PLC/Auth.py b/PLC/Auth.py
index 9fea3e3..b11e855 100644
--- a/PLC/Auth.py
+++ b/PLC/Auth.py
@@ -256,7 +256,8 @@ class BootAuth(Auth):
 
             # We encode in UTF-8 before calculating the HMAC, which is
             # an 8-bit algorithm.
-            digest = hmac.new(key, msg.encode('utf-8'), sha).hexdigest()
+            # python 2.6 insists on receiving a 'str' as opposed to a 'unicode'
+            digest = hmac.new(str(key), msg.encode('utf-8'), sha).hexdigest()
 
             if digest != auth['value']:
                 raise PLCAuthenticationFailure, "Call could not be authenticated"