diff --git a/changelog.d/9164.bugfix b/changelog.d/9164.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1c54a256c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/9164.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix a long-standing bug where an internal server error was raised when attempting to preview an HTML document in an unknown character encoding.
diff --git a/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py b/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
index a632099167..bf3be653aa 100644
--- a/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
+++ b/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
"""
Check whether the URL should be downloaded as oEmbed content instead.
- Params:
+ Args:
url: The URL to check.
Returns:
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
"""
Request content from an oEmbed endpoint.
- Params:
+ Args:
endpoint: The oEmbed API endpoint.
url: The URL to pass to the API.
@@ -692,27 +692,51 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
def decode_and_calc_og(
body: bytes, media_uri: str, request_encoding: Optional[str] = None
) -> Dict[str, Optional[str]]:
+ """
+ Calculate metadata for an HTML document.
+
+ This uses lxml to parse the HTML document into the OG response. If errors
+ occur during processing of the document, an empty response is returned.
+
+ Args:
+ body: The HTML document, as bytes.
+ media_url: The URI used to download the body.
+ request_encoding: The character encoding of the body, as a string.
+
+ Returns:
+ The OG response as a dictionary.
+ """
# If there's no body, nothing useful is going to be found.
if not body:
return {}
from lxml import etree
+ # Create an HTML parser. If this fails, log and return no metadata.
try:
parser = etree.HTMLParser(recover=True, encoding=request_encoding)
- tree = etree.fromstring(body, parser)
- og = _calc_og(tree, media_uri)
+ except LookupError:
+ # blindly consider the encoding as utf-8.
+ parser = etree.HTMLParser(recover=True, encoding="utf-8")
+ except Exception as e:
+ logger.warning("Unable to create HTML parser: %s" % (e,))
+ return {}
+
+ def _attempt_calc_og(body_attempt: Union[bytes, str]) -> Dict[str, Optional[str]]:
+ # Attempt to parse the body. If this fails, log and return no metadata.
+ tree = etree.fromstring(body_attempt, parser)
+ return _calc_og(tree, media_uri)
+
+ # Attempt to parse the body. If this fails, log and return no metadata.
+ try:
+ return _attempt_calc_og(body)
except UnicodeDecodeError:
# blindly try decoding the body as utf-8, which seems to fix
# the charset mismatches on https://google.com
- parser = etree.HTMLParser(recover=True, encoding=request_encoding)
- tree = etree.fromstring(body.decode("utf-8", "ignore"), parser)
- og = _calc_og(tree, media_uri)
-
- return og
+ return _attempt_calc_og(body.decode("utf-8", "ignore"))
-def _calc_og(tree, media_uri: str) -> Dict[str, Optional[str]]:
+def _calc_og(tree: "etree.Element", media_uri: str) -> Dict[str, Optional[str]]:
# suck our tree into lxml and define our OG response.
# if we see any image URLs in the OG response, then spider them
diff --git a/tests/test_preview.py b/tests/test_preview.py
index c19facc1cb..0c6cbbd921 100644
--- a/tests/test_preview.py
+++ b/tests/test_preview.py
@@ -261,3 +261,32 @@ class PreviewUrlTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
html = ""
og = decode_and_calc_og(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
self.assertEqual(og, {})
+
+ def test_invalid_encoding(self):
+ """An invalid character encoding should be ignored and treated as UTF-8, if possible."""
+ html = """
+
+ Foo
+
+ Some text.
+
+
+ """
+ og = decode_and_calc_og(
+ html, "http://example.com/test.html", "invalid-encoding"
+ )
+ self.assertEqual(og, {"og:title": "Foo", "og:description": "Some text."})
+
+ def test_invalid_encoding2(self):
+ """A body which doesn't match the sent character encoding."""
+ # Note that this contains an invalid UTF-8 sequence in the title.
+ html = b"""
+
+ \xff\xff Foo
+
+ Some text.
+
+
+ """
+ og = decode_and_calc_og(html, "http://example.com/test.html")
+ self.assertEqual(og, {"og:title": "ÿÿ Foo", "og:description": "Some text."})