From 3a8d84e9b1e33df2ac083282cb9f2aed29422575 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mouse Reeve <mousereeve@riseup.net>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 12:33:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] A couple bugs in loading authors

---
 fedireads/connectors/abstract_connector.py  | 2 ++
 fedireads/connectors/fedireads_connector.py | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fedireads/connectors/abstract_connector.py b/fedireads/connectors/abstract_connector.py
index 27cd87eb9..aa36bc52f 100644
--- a/fedireads/connectors/abstract_connector.py
+++ b/fedireads/connectors/abstract_connector.py
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ def has_attr(obj, key):
 
 def get_date(date_string):
     ''' helper function to try to interpret dates '''
+    if not date_string:
+        return None
     try:
         return pytz.utc.localize(parser.parse(date_string))
     except ValueError:
diff --git a/fedireads/connectors/fedireads_connector.py b/fedireads/connectors/fedireads_connector.py
index d5cec38ec..74fe4914c 100644
--- a/fedireads/connectors/fedireads_connector.py
+++ b/fedireads/connectors/fedireads_connector.py
@@ -150,7 +150,12 @@ class Connector(AbstractConnector):
         except ObjectDoesNotExist:
             pass
 
-        resp = requests.get('%s/authors/%s.json' % (self.base_url, remote_id))
+        resp = requests.get(
+            remote_id,
+            headers={
+                'Accept': 'application/activity+json; charset=utf-8',
+            },
+        )
         if not resp.ok:
             resp.raise_for_status()