diff --git a/nilmdb/client/httpclient.py b/nilmdb/client/httpclient.py
index 5b67203..ff40ef7 100644
--- a/nilmdb/client/httpclient.py
+++ b/nilmdb/client/httpclient.py
@@ -165,11 +165,11 @@ class HTTPClient(object):
                 yield chunk
         elif isjson:
             for line in lines(response.iter_content(chunk_size = 1),
-                              ending = '\r\n'):
+                              ending = b'\r\n'):
                 yield json.loads(line)
         else:
             for line in lines(response.iter_content(chunk_size = 65536),
-                              ending = '\n'):
+                              ending = b'\n'):
                 yield line
 
     def get_gen(self, url, params = None, binary = False):
diff --git a/nilmdb/server/server.py b/nilmdb/server/server.py
index 3fc06cb..0986c18 100644
--- a/nilmdb/server/server.py
+++ b/nilmdb/server/server.py
@@ -285,7 +285,8 @@ class Stream(NilmApp):
             # Note: disable chunked responses to see tracebacks from here.
             while True:
                 (removed, restart) = self.db.stream_remove(path, start, end)
-                yield json.dumps(removed) + "\r\n"
+                response = json.dumps(removed) + "\r\n"
+                yield response.encode('utf-8')
                 if restart is None:
                     break
                 start = restart
@@ -326,7 +327,7 @@ class Stream(NilmApp):
                 (ints, restart) = self.db.stream_intervals(path, start, end,
                                                            diffpath)
                 response = ''.join([ json.dumps(i) + "\r\n" for i in ints ])
-                yield response
+                yield response.encode('utf-8')
                 if restart is None:
                     break
                 start = restart
@@ -377,7 +378,7 @@ class Stream(NilmApp):
             if count:
                 matched = self.db.stream_extract(path, start, end,
                                                  count = True)
-                yield sprintf("%d\n", matched)
+                yield sprintf(b"%d\n", matched)
                 return
 
             while True:
@@ -397,7 +398,7 @@ class Exiter(object):
     def index(self):
         cherrypy.response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
         def content():
-            yield 'Exiting by request'
+            yield b'Exiting by request'
             raise SystemExit
         return content()
     index._cp_config = { 'response.stream': True }