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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def send_encoded(self, message, auth_header=None, **kwargs):
 """ Given an already serialized message, signs the message and passes the payload off to ``send_remote``. """

        client_string = 'raven-python/%s' % (raven.VERSION,)

        if not auth_header:
            timestamp = time.time()
            auth_header = get_auth_header(
                protocol=self.protocol_version,
                timestamp=timestamp,
                client=client_string,
                api_key=self.remote.public_key,
                api_secret=self.remote.secret_key,
            )

        headers = {
            'User-Agent': client_string,
            'X-Sentry-Auth': auth_header,
            'Content-Encoding': self.get_content_encoding(),
            'Content-Type': 'application/octet-stream',
        }

        return self.send_remote(
            url=self.remote.store_endpoint,
            data=message,
            headers=headers,
            **kwargs
        )