diff --git a/molteniron/molteniron b/molteniron/molteniron
index 25410d8..7228b9b 100755
--- a/molteniron/molteniron
+++ b/molteniron/molteniron
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import json
 import os
 import sys
 import yaml
-if (sys.version_info >= (3, 0)):
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
     import http.client  # noqa
 else:
     import httplib  # noqa
@@ -95,15 +95,20 @@ class MoltenIron(object):
         """Send the generated request """
         ip = str(self.conf['serverIP'])
         port = int(self.conf['mi_port'])
-        if (sys.version_info > (3, 0)):
+        if sys.version_info > (3, 0):
             connection = http.client.HTTPConnection(ip, port)  # noqa
         else:
             connection = httplib.HTTPConnection(ip, port)  # noqa
         connection.request('POST', '/', json.dumps(request))
 
         response = connection.getresponse()
+        data = response.read()
 
-        return response.read()
+        if sys.version_info > (3, 0):
+            # We actually receive bytes instead of a string!
+            data = data.decode("utf-8")
+
+        return data
 
     def get_response(self):
         """Returns the response from the server """
diff --git a/molteniron/moltenirond.py b/molteniron/moltenirond.py
index cacca3b..de2c950 100755
--- a/molteniron/moltenirond.py
+++ b/molteniron/moltenirond.py
@@ -104,7 +104,11 @@ def MakeMoltenIronHandlerWithConf(conf):
         def do_POST(self):
             """HTTP POST support"""
             CL = 'Content-Length'
-            self.data_string = self.rfile.read(int(self.headers[CL]))
+            data = self.rfile.read(int(self.headers[CL]))
+            if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+                # We actually received bytes instead of a string!
+                data = data.decode("utf-8")
+            self.data_string = data
             response = self.parse(self.data_string)
             self.send_reply(response)
 
@@ -117,8 +121,11 @@ def MakeMoltenIronHandlerWithConf(conf):
             self.send_response(status_code)
             self.send_header('Content-type', 'application/json')
             self.end_headers()
-            self.wfile.write(json.dumps(response,
-                                        cls=JSON_encoder_with_DateTime))
+            data = json.dumps(response, cls=JSON_encoder_with_DateTime)
+            if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+                # We actually need to send bytes instead of a string!
+                data = data.encode()
+            self.wfile.write(data)
 
         def parse(self, request_string):
             """Handle the request. Returns the response of the request """