From 0ee89136ff5ec032a04a5ddbb6a9798ef57aec2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justin Visser <justinfvisser@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 23:04:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: handle optional cookie field for mypy type check

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 app/api/routers/admin_settings.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/api/routers/admin_settings.py b/app/api/routers/admin_settings.py
index c909874..bbdaad3 100644
--- a/app/api/routers/admin_settings.py
+++ b/app/api/routers/admin_settings.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def _apply_scholar_http_settings(payload: AdminScholarHttpSettingsUpdateRequest)
         max_length=_MAX_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE_LENGTH,
     )
     cookie = _normalize_header_value(
-        payload.cookie,
+        payload.cookie or "",
         field_name="cookie",
         max_length=_MAX_COOKIE_LENGTH,
     )