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Diffstat (limited to 'synapse')
| -rw-r--r-- | synapse/handlers/federation.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/federation.py b/synapse/handlers/federation.py index 6c19d6ae8c..2ce1e9d6c7 100644 --- a/synapse/handlers/federation.py +++ b/synapse/handlers/federation.py @@ -1186,7 +1186,13 @@ class FederationHandler(BaseHandler): try: self.auth.check(e, auth_events=auth_for_e) - except AuthError as err: + except SynapseError as err: + # we may get SynapseErrors here as well as AuthErrors. For + # instance, there are a couple of (ancient) events in some + # rooms whose senders do not have the correct sigil; these + # cause SynapseErrors in auth.check. We don't want to give up + # the attempt to federate altogether in such cases. + logger.warn( "Rejecting %s because %s", e.event_id, err.msg |