MSC4108 implementation (#17056)

Co-authored-by: Hugh Nimmo-Smith <hughns@element.io>
Co-authored-by: Hugh Nimmo-Smith <hughns@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Morgan <1342360+anoadragon453@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tests/server.py b/tests/server.py

index 4aaa91e956..434be3d22c 100644
--- a/tests/server.py
+++ b/tests/server.py
@@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ def make_request(
     request: Type[Request] = SynapseRequest,
     shorthand: bool = True,
     federation_auth_origin: Optional[bytes] = None,
+    content_type: Optional[bytes] = None,
     content_is_form: bool = False,
     await_result: bool = True,
     custom_headers: Optional[Iterable[CustomHeaderType]] = None,
@@ -373,6 +374,8 @@ def make_request(
             with the usual REST API path, if it doesn't contain it.
         federation_auth_origin: if set to not-None, we will add a fake
             Authorization header pretenting to be the given server name.
+        content_type: The content-type to use for the request. If not set then will default to
+            application/json unless content_is_form is true.
         content_is_form: Whether the content is URL encoded form data. Adds the
             'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' header.
         await_result: whether to wait for the request to complete rendering. If true,
@@ -436,7 +439,9 @@ def make_request(
         )
 
     if content:
-        if content_is_form:
+        if content_type is not None:
+            req.requestHeaders.addRawHeader(b"Content-Type", content_type)
+        elif content_is_form:
             req.requestHeaders.addRawHeader(
                 b"Content-Type", b"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
             )