diff --git a/tests/requests/valid/025.py b/tests/requests/valid/025.py
index e1b29bb15..d23870680 100644
--- a/tests/requests/valid/025.py
+++ b/tests/requests/valid/025.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 request = {
     "method": "POST",
     "uri": uri("/chunked"),
-    "version": (1, 0),
+    "version": (1, 1),
     "headers": [
         ('TRANSFER-ENCODING', 'gzip'),
         ('TRANSFER-ENCODING', 'chunked')
     ],
-    "body": 'hello world'
+    "body": b"hello world"
 }
diff --git a/tests/requests/valid/025_line.py b/tests/requests/valid/025_line.py
index 77c3d5a28..b2ebc652e 100644
--- a/tests/requests/valid/025_line.py
+++ b/tests/requests/valid/025_line.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 request = {
     "method": "POST",
     "uri": uri("/chunked"),
-    "version": (1, 0),
+    "version": (1, 1),
     "headers": [
         ('TRANSFER-ENCODING', 'gzip,chunked')
 
     ],
-    "body": 'hello world'
+    "body": b"hello world"
 }