From 2c08d474a83b438cf02595c6854f2f79e708b852 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:08:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [1.6.x] Fixed #20961 -- Fixed HttpResponse default empty
 content

Thanks epandurski at gmail.com for the report.
Backport of f4e980456 from master.
---
 django/http/response.py     | 2 +-
 tests/httpwrappers/tests.py | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/django/http/response.py b/django/http/response.py
index 8d8db2c8b4..f522c0684b 100644
--- a/django/http/response.py
+++ b/django/http/response.py
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ class HttpResponse(HttpResponseBase):
 
     streaming = False
 
-    def __init__(self, content='', *args, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, content=b'', *args, **kwargs):
         super(HttpResponse, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         # Content is a bytestring. See the `content` property methods.
         self.content = content
diff --git a/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py b/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py
index c4c7996aa5..8e0c415623 100644
--- a/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py
+++ b/tests/httpwrappers/tests.py
@@ -398,6 +398,13 @@ class HttpResponseTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(r.tell(), 6)
         self.assertEqual(r.content, b'abcdef')
 
+        # with Content-Encoding header
+        r = HttpResponse()
+        r['Content-Encoding'] = 'winning'
+        r.write(b'abc')
+        r.write(b'def')
+        self.assertEqual(r.content, b'abcdef')
+
     def test_unsafe_redirect(self):
         bad_urls = [
             'data:text/html,<script>window.alert("xss")</script>',