diff --git a/proxmox-notify/src/endpoints/webhook.rs b/proxmox-notify/src/endpoints/webhook.rs
index 604777c7..eada590e 100644
--- a/proxmox-notify/src/endpoints/webhook.rs
+++ b/proxmox-notify/src/endpoints/webhook.rs
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ impl WebhookEndpoint {
         //
         // -> send the header always, unless we do a get with no body (which is the expected case
         // for GET)
-        let content_length = body.as_bytes().len();
+        let content_length = body.len();
         if !(self.config.method == HttpMethod::Get && content_length == 0) {
             builder = builder.header(http::header::CONTENT_LENGTH, content_length);
         }
diff --git a/proxmox-notify/src/renderer/mod.rs b/proxmox-notify/src/renderer/mod.rs
index b37cf438..bff76ed1 100644
--- a/proxmox-notify/src/renderer/mod.rs
+++ b/proxmox-notify/src/renderer/mod.rs
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ fn render_template_impl(
     filename: &str,
     source: TemplateSource,
 ) -> Result<Option<String>, Error> {
-    let template_string = context::context().lookup_template(&filename, None, source)?;
+    let template_string = context::context().lookup_template(filename, None, source)?;
 
     if let Some(template_string) = template_string {
         let mut handlebars = Handlebars::new();