diff --git a/import_logs.py b/import_logs.py
index 0786974..1b9e3d3 100755
--- a/import_logs.py
+++ b/import_logs.py
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 import textwrap
 import collections
 import glob
+import io
 
 # Avoid "got more than 100 headers" error
 http.client._MAXHEADERS = 1000
@@ -459,6 +460,8 @@ def get(self, key):
 _NCSA_EXTENDED_LOG_FORMAT = (_COMMON_LOG_FORMAT +
     r'\s+"(?P<referrer>.*?)"\s+"(?P<user_agent>.*?)"'
 )
+
+
 _S3_LOG_FORMAT = (
     r'\S+\s+(?P<host>\S+)\s+\[(?P<date>.*?)\s+(?P<timezone>.*?)\]\s+(?P<ip>[\w*.:-]+)\s+'
     r'(?P<userid>\S+)\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+"(?P<method>\S+)\s+(?P<path>.*?)\s+\S+"\s+(?P<status>\d+)\s+\S+\s+(?P<length>\S+)\s+'
@@ -483,6 +486,10 @@ def get(self, key):
     r'.*:\ (?P<ip>[\w*.]+).*\[(?P<date>.*)\].*\ (?P<status>\b\d{3}\b)\ (?P<length>\d+)\ -.*\"(?P<method>\S+)\ (?P<path>\S+).*'
 )
 
+_GANDI_SIMPLE_HOSTING_FORMAT = (
+    r'(?P<host>[0-9a-zA-Z-_.]+)\s+(?P<ip>[a-zA-Z0-9.]+)\s+\S+\s+(?P<userid>\S+)\s+\[(?P<date>.+?)\s+(?P<timezone>.+?)\]\s+\((?P<generation_time_secs>[0-9a-zA-Z\s]*)\)\s+"(?P<method>[A-Z]+)\s+(?P<path>\S+)\s+(\S+)"\s+(?P<status>[0-9]+)\s+(?P<length>\S+)\s+"(?P<referrer>\S+)"\s+"(?P<user_agent>[^"]+)"'
+)
+
 FORMATS = {
     'common': RegexFormat('common', _COMMON_LOG_FORMAT),
     'common_vhost': RegexFormat('common_vhost', _HOST_PREFIX + _COMMON_LOG_FORMAT),
@@ -498,7 +505,8 @@ def get(self, key):
     'elb': RegexFormat('elb', _ELB_LOG_FORMAT, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S'),
     'nginx_json': JsonFormat('nginx_json'),
     'ovh': RegexFormat('ovh', _OVH_FORMAT),
-    'haproxy': RegexFormat('haproxy', _HAPROXY_FORMAT, '%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S.%f')
+    'haproxy': RegexFormat('haproxy', _HAPROXY_FORMAT, '%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S.%f'),
+    'gandi': RegexFormat('gandi', _GANDI_SIMPLE_HOSTING_FORMAT, '%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S')
 }
 
 ##
@@ -1527,9 +1535,10 @@ def _call(self, path, args, headers=None, url=None, data=None):
             self.RedirectHandlerWithLogging(),
             urllib.request.HTTPSHandler(**https_handler_args))
         response = opener.open(request, timeout = timeout)
+        encoding = response.info().get_content_charset('utf-8')
         result = response.read()
         response.close()
-        return result
+        return result.decode(encoding)
 
     def _call_api(self, method, **kwargs):
         """
diff --git a/tests/logs/gandi.log b/tests/logs/gandi.log
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5da7fae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/logs/gandi.log
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+www.example.com 1.2.3.4 - theuser [10/Feb/2012:16:42:07 -0500] (0 s) "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 368 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.56 Safari/535.11"
+www.example.com 125.125.125.125 - - [10/Feb/2012:16:42:07 -0500] (0 s) "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1124 "https://www.example.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/test_main.py b/tests/test_main.py
index fd203da..b7ae020 100644
--- a/tests/test_main.py
+++ b/tests/test_main.py
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ def _test_ipv6(format_name, log_file = None):
 
     for format_name in import_logs.FORMATS.keys():
         # w3c extended tested by iis and netscaler log files; amazon cloudfront tested later
-        if format_name == 'w3c_extended' or format_name == 'amazon_cloudfront' or format_name == 'ovh' or format_name == 'haproxy' or format_name == 'incapsula_w3c':
+        if format_name == 'w3c_extended' or format_name == 'amazon_cloudfront' or format_name == 'ovh' or format_name == 'gandi' or format_name == 'haproxy' or format_name == 'incapsula_w3c':
             continue
 
         # 'Testing autodetection of format ' + format_name
@@ -416,6 +416,9 @@ def check_match_groups(format_name, groups):
 def check_ovh_groups(groups):
     check_common_complete_groups(groups)
 
+def check_gandi_groups(groups):
+    check_common_complete_groups(groups)
+
 def check_haproxy_groups(groups):
     assert groups['ip'] == '4.3.2.1'
     assert groups['date'] == '25/Sep/2018:06:05:27.584'
@@ -811,6 +814,70 @@ def test_ovh_parsing():
 
     import_logs.config.options.log_hostname = 'foo'
 
+def test_gandi_parsing():
+    """test parsing of gandi logs (which needs to be forced, as it's not autodetected)"""
+
+    file_ = 'logs/gandi.log'
+
+    # have to override previous globals override for this test
+    import_logs.config.options.custom_w3c_fields = {}
+    Recorder.recorders = []
+    import_logs.parser = import_logs.Parser()
+    import_logs.config.format = import_logs.FORMATS['gandi']
+    import_logs.config.options.log_hostname = None
+    import_logs.config.options.enable_http_redirects = True
+    import_logs.config.options.enable_http_errors = True
+    import_logs.config.options.replay_tracking = False
+    import_logs.config.options.w3c_time_taken_in_millisecs = False
+    import_logs.parser.parse(file_)
+
+    hits = [hit.__dict__ for hit in Recorder.recorders]
+
+    assert hits[0]['status'] == u'301'
+    assert hits[0]['userid'] == 'theuser'
+    assert hits[0]['is_error'] == False
+    assert hits[0]['extension'] == '/'
+    assert hits[0]['is_download'] == False
+    assert hits[0]['referrer'] == ''
+    assert hits[0]['args'] == {'cvar': {1: ['HTTP-method', 'GET']}, 'uid': 'theuser'}
+    assert hits[0]['generation_time_milli'] == 0
+    assert hits[0]['host'] == 'www.example.com'
+    assert hits[0]['filename'] == 'logs/gandi.log'
+    assert hits[0]['is_redirect'] == True
+    assert hits[0]['date'] == datetime.datetime(2012, 2, 10, 21, 42, 0o7)
+    assert hits[0]['lineno'] == 0
+    assert hits[0]['ip'] == '1.2.3.4'
+    assert hits[0]['query_string'] == ''
+    assert hits[0]['path'] == '/'
+    assert hits[0]['is_robot'] == False
+    assert hits[0]['full_path'] == '/'
+    assert hits[0]['user_agent'] == 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.56 Safari/535.11'
+
+    assert hits[1]['status'] == u'200'
+    assert hits[1]['userid'] == None
+    assert hits[1]['is_error'] == False
+    assert hits[1]['extension'] == '/'
+    assert hits[1]['is_download'] == False
+    assert hits[1]['referrer'] == u'https://www.example.com/'
+    assert hits[0]['args'] == {'cvar': {1: ['HTTP-method', 'GET']}, 'uid': 'theuser'}
+    assert hits[1]['length'] == 1124
+    assert hits[1]['generation_time_milli'] == 0
+    assert hits[1]['host'] == 'www.example.com'
+    assert hits[1]['filename'] == 'logs/gandi.log'
+    assert hits[1]['is_redirect'] == False
+    assert hits[1]['date'] == datetime.datetime(2012, 2, 10, 21, 42, 0o7)
+    assert hits[1]['lineno'] == 1
+    assert hits[1]['ip'] == u'125.125.125.125'
+    assert hits[1]['query_string'] == u''
+    assert hits[1]['path'] == '/'
+    assert hits[1]['is_robot'] == False
+    assert hits[1]['full_path'] == u'/'
+    assert hits[1]['user_agent'] == u'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:90.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0'
+
+    assert len(hits) == 2
+
+    import_logs.config.options.log_hostname = 'foo'
+
 def test_incapsulaw3c_parsing():
     """test parsing of incapsula w3c logs (which needs to be forced, as it's not autodetected)"""