diff --git a/django/views/static.py b/django/views/static.py index f74570c307..28e43ec612 100644 --- a/django/views/static.py +++ b/django/views/static.py @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def serve(request, path, document_root=None, show_indexes=False): raise Http404, '"%s" does not exist' % fullpath else: mimetype = mimetypes.guess_type(fullpath)[0] - return HttpResponse(open(fullpath).read(), mimetype=mimetype) + return HttpResponse(open(fullpath, 'rb').read(), mimetype=mimetype) DEFAULT_DIRECTORY_INDEX_TEMPLATE = """