From 3fd309a5c14e4cfbd96bea6c8e71b4958fe090bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Adams <bruce.adams@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:17:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Enhance `super_len` to count encoded bytes for str

This fixes issue #6586
---
 src/requests/utils.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/requests/utils.py b/src/requests/utils.py
index c3b123ea..a603a863 100644
--- a/src/requests/utils.py
+++ b/src/requests/utils.py
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ def super_len(o):
     total_length = None
     current_position = 0
 
+    if isinstance(o, str):
+        o = o.encode("utf-8")
+
     if hasattr(o, "__len__"):
         total_length = len(o)