diff --git a/pywb/framework/wbrequestresponse.py b/pywb/framework/wbrequestresponse.py
index a6f1908b..fad7b5a8 100644
--- a/pywb/framework/wbrequestresponse.py
+++ b/pywb/framework/wbrequestresponse.py
@@ -187,10 +187,7 @@ class WbResponse(object):
                 self.body.close()
             return []
 
-        if hasattr(self.body, '__iter__'):
-            return self.body
-        else:
-            return [str(self.body)]
+        return self.body
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return str(vars(self))
diff --git a/pywb/webapp/query_handler.py b/pywb/webapp/query_handler.py
index b7d09ecb..92526179 100644
--- a/pywb/webapp/query_handler.py
+++ b/pywb/webapp/query_handler.py
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class QueryHandler(object):
 
             wburl.LATEST_REPLAY:
                 {'sort': 'reverse',
-                 'filter': ['statuscode:[23]..'],
+                 'filter': ['statuscode:[23]..|-'],
                  'limit': '1',
                  'resolveRevisits': True,
                 }
diff --git a/pywb/webapp/replay_views.py b/pywb/webapp/replay_views.py
index 6572419f..42751a75 100644
--- a/pywb/webapp/replay_views.py
+++ b/pywb/webapp/replay_views.py
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ class ReplayView(object):
                                           content_length_str)
             out.close()
 
-        return content
+        return [content]
 
     def _redirect_if_needed(self, wbrequest, cdx):
         if wbrequest.options['is_proxy']: