From ef1a85e7733bc1979f48357dd59b638110285075 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:10:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix startup error when http proxy is defined. (#6421)

Guess I only tested this on python 2 :/

Fixes #6419.
---
 changelog.d/6421.bugfix                       | 1 +
 synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py | 4 ++--
 synapse/server.py                             | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/6421.bugfix

diff --git a/changelog.d/6421.bugfix b/changelog.d/6421.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7969f7f71d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/6421.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix startup error when http proxy is defined.
diff --git a/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py b/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
index a23d6f5c75..fb0d02aa83 100644
--- a/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
+++ b/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeResource):
             treq_args={"browser_like_redirects": True},
             ip_whitelist=hs.config.url_preview_ip_range_whitelist,
             ip_blacklist=hs.config.url_preview_ip_range_blacklist,
-            http_proxy=os.getenv("http_proxy"),
-            https_proxy=os.getenv("HTTPS_PROXY"),
+            http_proxy=os.getenvb(b"http_proxy"),
+            https_proxy=os.getenvb(b"HTTPS_PROXY"),
         )
         self.media_repo = media_repo
         self.primary_base_path = media_repo.primary_base_path
diff --git a/synapse/server.py b/synapse/server.py
index 90c3b072e8..be9af7f986 100644
--- a/synapse/server.py
+++ b/synapse/server.py
@@ -318,8 +318,8 @@ class HomeServer(object):
     def build_proxied_http_client(self):
         return SimpleHttpClient(
             self,
-            http_proxy=os.getenv("http_proxy"),
-            https_proxy=os.getenv("HTTPS_PROXY"),
+            http_proxy=os.getenvb(b"http_proxy"),
+            https_proxy=os.getenvb(b"HTTPS_PROXY"),
         )
 
     def build_room_creation_handler(self):