From 86d9016f02cea7f0ae50a73fb3285133e1130fe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@nodebb.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 10:29:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: regression that caused Piefed (or potentially others)
 content to be dropped on receipt

---
 src/activitypub/index.js | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/activitypub/index.js b/src/activitypub/index.js
index 4c1f3eee69..11f16322e2 100644
--- a/src/activitypub/index.js
+++ b/src/activitypub/index.js
@@ -585,6 +585,9 @@ ActivityPub.checkHeader = async (url, timeout) => {
 				.map(p => p.trim())
 				.reduce((memo, cur) => {
 					cur = cur.split('=');
+					if (cur.length < 2) {
+						cur.push('');
+					}
 					memo[cur[0]] = cur[1].slice(1, -1);
 					return memo;
 				}, {});