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| -rw-r--r-- | changelog.d/8862.bugfix | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | synapse/rest/media/v1/upload_resource.py | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/changelog.d/8862.bugfix b/changelog.d/8862.bugfix new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bdbd633f72 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/8862.bugfix @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Fix a longstanding bug where a 500 error would be returned if the `Content-Length` header was not provided to the upload media resource. diff --git a/synapse/rest/media/v1/upload_resource.py b/synapse/rest/media/v1/upload_resource.py index d76f7389e1..42febc9afc 100644 --- a/synapse/rest/media/v1/upload_resource.py +++ b/synapse/rest/media/v1/upload_resource.py @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ class UploadResource(DirectServeJsonResource): requester = await self.auth.get_user_by_req(request) # TODO: The checks here are a bit late. The content will have # already been uploaded to a tmp file at this point - content_length = request.getHeader(b"Content-Length").decode("ascii") + content_length = request.getHeader("Content-Length") if content_length is None: raise SynapseError(msg="Request must specify a Content-Length", code=400) if int(content_length) > self.max_upload_size: |