[issue9873] Allow bytes in some APIs that use string literals internally

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> The primary reason for supporting ASCII compatible bytes directly is
> specifically to avoid the encoding and decoding overhead associated
> with the translation to unicode text.

I think it's quite misguided. latin1 encoding and decoding is blindingly
fast (on the order of 1GB/s. here). Unless you have multi-megabyte URLs,
you won't notice any overhead.

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