From 85af0354cf2a91e4a065a5232b9357ab40e6257f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John DiSanti <jdisanti@amazon.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:45:46 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Remove needless UTF-8 conversion

---
 rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/header.rs | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/header.rs b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/header.rs
index 605c406a09..558fe13e01 100644
--- a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/header.rs
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/header.rs
@@ -140,10 +140,8 @@ where
         Some(v) => v,
         None => return Ok(None),
     };
-    let value =
-        std::str::from_utf8(first.as_bytes()).map_err(|_| ParseError::new("invalid utf-8"))?;
     match values.next() {
-        None => T::from_str(value.trim())
+        None => T::from_str(first.trim())
             .map_err(|err| ParseError::new("failed to parse string").with_source(err))
             .map(Some),
         Some(_) => Err(ParseError::new(