Merge pull request #216 from feross/hex-everything

treat peer_id as hex everywhere

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 6e4c9b5..d63bea6 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ function WebTorrent (opts) {
   self.peerId = opts.peerId === undefined
     ? new Buffer('-WW' + VERSION + '-' + hat(48), 'utf8')
     : typeof opts.peerId === 'string'
-      ? new Buffer(opts.peerId, 'utf8')
+      ? new Buffer(opts.peerId, 'hex')
       : opts.peerId
   self.peerIdHex = self.peerId.toString('hex')