--- a/mercurial/httppeer.py	Sat Oct 14 11:30:17 2017 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/httppeer.py	Sat Oct 14 11:59:51 2017 -0400
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
         _wraphttpresponse(resp)
 
         # record the url we got redirected to
-        resp_url = resp.geturl()
+        resp_url = pycompat.bytesurl(resp.geturl())
         if resp_url.endswith(qs):
             resp_url = resp_url[:-len(qs)]
         if self._url.rstrip('/') != resp_url.rstrip('/'):