diff -r 1d937e495cd0 -r a2f922825721 mercurial/sslutil.py
--- a/mercurial/sslutil.py	Thu Feb 02 17:35:47 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/sslutil.py	Thu Feb 02 17:36:07 2023 +0100
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
             pass
 
         # Try to print more helpful error messages for known failures.
-        if util.safehasattr(e, b'reason'):
+        if util.safehasattr(e, 'reason'):
             # This error occurs when the client and server don't share a
             # common/supported SSL/TLS protocol. We've disabled SSLv2 and SSLv3
             # outright. Hopefully the reason for this error is that we require