From dda5d426107b19e35dff1e83213bc63722011f4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@nodebb.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:07:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: restore old behaviour of empty json w/ 401 code in admin
 middleware

---
 src/middleware/admin.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/middleware/admin.js b/src/middleware/admin.js
index 906b216314d7..2ffa450c443b 100644
--- a/src/middleware/admin.js
+++ b/src/middleware/admin.js
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ middleware.checkPrivileges = helpers.try(async (req, res, next) => {
 	req.session.returnTo = returnTo;
 	req.session.forceLogin = 1;
 	if (res.locals.isAPI) {
-		controllers.helpers.formatApiResponse(401, res);
+		res.status(401).json({});
 	} else {
 		res.redirect(nconf.get('relative_path') + '/login?local=1');
 	}