From 0216ae78000f9d88d27134b9920de8075b1c86d8 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 is a possible fix for issue #6586
---
 src/requests/utils.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/requests/utils.py b/src/requests/utils.py
index c3b123ea4e..ab982f04e3 100644
--- a/src/requests/utils.py
+++ b/src/requests/utils.py
@@ -134,7 +134,10 @@ def super_len(o):
     total_length = None
     current_position = 0
 
-    if hasattr(o, "__len__"):
+    if isinstance(o, str):
+        total_length = len(o.encode("utf-8"))
+
+    elif hasattr(o, "__len__"):
         total_length = len(o)
 
     elif hasattr(o, "len"):