Don't fail requests to unbind 3pids for non supporting ID servers

Older identity servers may not support the unbind 3pid request, so we
shouldn't fail the requests if we received one of 400/404/501. The
request still fails if we receive e.g. 500 responses, allowing clients
to retry requests on transient identity server errors that otherwise do
support the API.

Fixes #3661

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/handlers/identity.py b/synapse/handlers/identity.py
index 1d36d967c3..a0f5fecc96 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/identity.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/identity.py
@@ -137,15 +137,19 @@ class IdentityHandler(BaseHandler):
         defer.returnValue(data)
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
-    def unbind_threepid(self, mxid, threepid):
-        """
-        Removes a binding from an identity server
+    def try_unbind_threepid(self, mxid, threepid):
+        """Removes a binding from an identity server
+
         Args:
             mxid (str): Matrix user ID of binding to be removed
             threepid (dict): Dict with medium & address of binding to be removed
 
+        Raises:
+            SynapseError: If we failed to contact the identity server
+
         Returns:
-            Deferred[bool]: True on success, otherwise False
+            Deferred[bool]: True on success, otherwise False if the identity
+            server doesn't support unbinding
         """
         logger.debug("unbinding threepid %r from %s", threepid, mxid)
         if not self.trusted_id_servers:
@@ -175,11 +179,19 @@ class IdentityHandler(BaseHandler):
             content=content,
             destination_is=id_server,
         )
-        yield self.http_client.post_json_get_json(
-            url,
-            content,
-            headers,
-        )
+        try:
+            yield self.http_client.post_json_get_json(
+                url,
+                content,
+                headers,
+            )
+        except HttpResponseException as e:
+            if e.code in (400, 404, 501,):
+                # The remote server probably doesn't support unbinding (yet)
+                defer.returnValue(False)
+            else:
+                raise SynapseError(502, "Failed to contact identity server")
+
         defer.returnValue(True)
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks