diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index df3f31db..9fee2af3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 ### Changed
 -
 
+## [0.1.3] - 2019-02-27
+### Changed
+- Fix for [issue 126](https://github.com/Comcast/caduceus/issues/126)
+
 ## [0.1.2] - 2019-02-21
 ### Added
 - Fix for delivering events as json or msgpack based events [issue 113](https://github.com/Comcast/caduceus/issues/113)
@@ -38,7 +42,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 ### Added
 - Initial creation
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/Comcast/caduceus/compare/0.1.2...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/Comcast/caduceus/compare/0.1.3...HEAD
+[0.1.3]: https://github.com/Comcast/caduceus/compare/0.1.2...0.1.3
 [0.1.2]: https://github.com/Comcast/caduceus/compare/0.1.1...0.1.2
 [0.1.1]: https://github.com/Comcast/caduceus/compare/0.0.1...0.1.1
 [0.0.1]: https://github.com/Comcast/caduceus/compare/0.0.0...0.0.1
diff --git a/src/caduceus/outboundSender.go b/src/caduceus/outboundSender.go
index 3e0b6ded..c25f2ba3 100644
--- a/src/caduceus/outboundSender.go
+++ b/src/caduceus/outboundSender.go
@@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ func (obs *CaduceusOutboundSender) send(secret, acceptType string, msg *wrp.Mess
 	defer obs.workers.Release()
 
 	payload := msg.Payload
+	body := payload
 	var payloadReader *bytes.Reader
 
 	// Use the internal content type unless the accept type is wrp
@@ -473,10 +474,9 @@ func (obs *CaduceusOutboundSender) send(secret, acceptType string, msg *wrp.Mess
 		buffer := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{})
 		encoder := wrp.NewEncoder(buffer, wrp.Msgpack)
 		encoder.Encode(msg)
-		payloadReader = bytes.NewReader(buffer.Bytes())
-	default:
-		payloadReader = bytes.NewReader(payload)
+		body = buffer.Bytes()
 	}
+	payloadReader = bytes.NewReader(body)
 
 	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", obs.id, payloadReader)
 	if nil != err {
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ func (obs *CaduceusOutboundSender) send(secret, acceptType string, msg *wrp.Mess
 
 	if "" != secret {
 		s := hmac.New(sha1.New, []byte(secret))
-		s.Write(payload)
+		s.Write(body)
 		sig := fmt.Sprintf("sha1=%s", hex.EncodeToString(s.Sum(nil)))
 		req.Header.Set("X-Webpa-Signature", sig)
 	}