diff --git a/benchmark/requirements.txt b/benchmark/requirements.txt
index 1b0d1fe2f0..0aec4bae79 100644
--- a/benchmark/requirements.txt
+++ b/benchmark/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-aiohttp==3.8.2
+aiohttp==3.10.3
 # Blacksheep depends upon essentials_openapi which is pinned to pyyaml==5.4.1
 # and pyyaml>5.3.1 is broken for cython 3
 # See https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/issues/724#issuecomment-1638587228
diff --git a/proxy/http/client.py b/proxy/http/client.py
index 60e420e68f..1cae1be92d 100644
--- a/proxy/http/client.py
+++ b/proxy/http/client.py
@@ -34,15 +34,15 @@ def client(
     conn_close: bool = True,
     scheme: bytes = HTTPS_PROTO,
     timeout: float = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
-    content_type: bytes = b"application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
+    content_type: bytes = b'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
 ) -> Optional[HttpParser]:
     """Makes a request to remote registry endpoint"""
     request = build_http_request(
         method=method,
         url=path,
         headers={
-            b"Host": host,
-            b"Content-Type": content_type,
+            b'Host': host,
+            b'Content-Type': content_type,
         },
         body=body,
         conn_close=conn_close,
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def client(
     try:
         conn = new_socket_connection((host.decode(), port))
     except ConnectionRefusedError as exc:
-        logger.exception("Connection refused", exc_info=exc)
+        logger.exception('Connection refused', exc_info=exc)
         return None
     sock: TcpOrTlsSocket = conn
     if scheme == HTTPS_PROTO:
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ def client(
             ctx.load_verify_locations(cafile=certifi.where())
             sock = ctx.wrap_socket(conn, server_hostname=host.decode())
         except Exception as exc:
-            logger.exception("Unable to wrap", exc_info=exc)
+            logger.exception('Unable to wrap', exc_info=exc)
             conn.close()
             return None
     parser = HttpParser(httpParserTypes.RESPONSE_PARSER)
diff --git a/tests/http/test_client.py b/tests/http/test_client.py
index 2aa2f8dd24..52d708e39a 100644
--- a/tests/http/test_client.py
+++ b/tests/http/test_client.py
@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ class TestClient(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_client(self) -> None:
         response = client(
-            host=b"google.com",
+            host=b'google.com',
             port=443,
-            scheme=b"https",
-            path=b"/",
-            method=b"GET",
-            content_type=b"text/html",
+            scheme=b'https',
+            path=b'/',
+            method=b'GET',
+            content_type=b'text/html',
         )
         assert response is not None
-        self.assertEqual(response.code, b"301")
+        self.assertEqual(response.code, b'301')