--- a/http.py	Tue Feb 10 01:07:15 2009 +0200
+++ b/http.py	Thu Feb 12 01:37:02 2009 +0200
@@ -165,10 +165,15 @@
 
     def __init__ (self, data, content_type='text/html', status='200 OK', charset='UTF-8') :
         """
-            Create the response. The Content-type header is built from the given values. The given \a data must be
-            either a str (which is sent plain), an unicode object (which is encoded with the relevant charset), or
-            None, whereupon an empty response body is sent. The content_type argument can also be forced to None to
-            not send a Content-type header (e.g. for redirects)
+            Create the response. The Content-type header is built from the given values.
+            
+            The given data must be a string-like object, which will be encoded with the given charset, or None,
+            whereupon an empty response body will be sent.
+
+            The content_type argument can also be forced to None to not send a Content-type header (e.g. for
+            redirects).
+
+            The charset can be given as None to not encode the output (for binary data).
         """
 
         # store info
@@ -212,8 +217,12 @@
         """
 
         if self.data :
-            return self.data.encode(self.charset)
+            if self.charset :
+                return self.data.encode(self.charset)
 
+            else :
+                return self.data
+        
         else :
             return ''