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-rw-r--r--django/views/static.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/django/views/static.py b/django/views/static.py
index f74570c307..28e43ec612 100644
--- a/django/views/static.py
+++ b/django/views/static.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def serve(request, path, document_root=None, show_indexes=False):
raise Http404, '"%s" does not exist' % fullpath
else:
mimetype = mimetypes.guess_type(fullpath)[0]
- return HttpResponse(open(fullpath).read(), mimetype=mimetype)
+ return HttpResponse(open(fullpath, 'rb').read(), mimetype=mimetype)
DEFAULT_DIRECTORY_INDEX_TEMPLATE = """
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">