Using the binary response content of requests in order to avoid the metadata xml being saved with incorrect encoding

Author: Bogdan Despotov

src/saml2/mdstore.py

@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ def load(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """
         response = self.http.send(self.url)
         if response.status_code == 200:
-            _txt = response.text.encode("utf-8")
+            _txt = response.content
             return self.parse_and_check_signature(_txt)
         else:
             logger.info("Response status: %s", response.status_code)