Revert "[web] Add argument previously omitted"

This reverts commit 05967c2bb5fcb93bb83e93822668eb8e03083436.
Revert "[web] Return unicode from web.get and web.post"

This reverts commit a9eae704994d1f5b1536d66e86037afe34ceeff2.

This commit broke stuff and didn't have a descriptive enough commit message to explain why it was needed