From 5fec49e2618ccab706ea360b18d57420478cd265 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Honza=20Kr=C3=A1l?= <honza.kral@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 17:31:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make sure url is a string, not unicode in python 2

Fixes #133, thanks sheIIdon!
---
 elasticsearch/connection/http_urllib3.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/elasticsearch/connection/http_urllib3.py b/elasticsearch/connection/http_urllib3.py
index 22f2795b..4d3592cc 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/connection/http_urllib3.py
+++ b/elasticsearch/connection/http_urllib3.py
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ class Urllib3HttpConnection(Connection):
             kw = {}
             if timeout:
                 kw['timeout'] = timeout
+            if not isinstance(url, str):
+                url = url.encode('utf-8')
             response = self.pool.urlopen(method, url, body, retries=False, headers=self.headers, **kw)
             duration = time.time() - start
             raw_data = response.data.decode('utf-8')