pictures/media sent from signal-cli-rest-api don't show up on the Signal iOS app (v. 7.26 and newer)

[GatoPharaoh]

The problem

I noticed that pictures, videos and audio sent from signal-cli-rest-api don't show up on the iOS app anymore. doing a little testing i found out that this issue started with the introduction of Signal iOS version 7.26.

pictures/media do show up in paired clients for example on desktop, but not on any iOS client (be it native or paired) that has an app version of 7.26 or later (Signal iOS version 7.25 Build 275 is the last that i found receiving media). text messages do still work and are received but as soon as a picture/media file is involved, the iOS app does not show any message.

as sent pictures and media from other iOS and android devies are still received, is this maybe an issue of "how" the pictures are sent by signal-cli-rest-api? is anyone else experiencing this issue?

Are you using the latest released version?

• [X] Yes

Have you read the troubleshooting page?

• [X] Yes

What type of installation are you running?

signal-cli-rest-api Docker Container

In which mode are you using the docker container?

JSON-RPC Mode

What's the architecture of your host system?

x86-64

Additional information

No response

[steveredden]

Same issue for me. Even the simplest base64 is not sent. getting 201 response codes, though...

I tested upgrading my container to use signal-cli:v0.13.6 and was able to get media to send.

1. Get container id: docker ps | grep signal
2. docker exec -it <id from step 1> /bin/bash
3. apt update
4. apt install wget
5. export VERSION=0.13.6
6. wget https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/releases/download/v"${VERSION}"/signal-cli-"${VERSION}".tar.gz
7. tar xf signal-cli-"${VERSION}".tar.gz -C /opt
8. ln -sf /opt/signal-cli-"${VERSION}"/bin/signal-cli /usr/local/bin/

was able to send via CLI:

...but i HAVE NOT been able to get the API to send.

[bbernhard]

Please give this version a try: bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:0.167-dev

[steveredden]

that WORKED! I can successfully send b64 attachment and photo renders on my signal app.

but... the API returned a 400 (odd): [GIN] 2024/09/13 - 14:22:02 | 400 | 2.139253668s | 172.19.0.1 | POST "/v2/send"

"{"error":"1726237322665SLF4J(I): Connected with provider of type [ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.LogbackServiceProvider]"}"

[bbernhard]

really strange - that must come from signal-cli. Which mode are you using?

[steveredden]

MODE=native

[bbernhard]

looks like this is already fixed upstream, see: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/issues/1584. Hope there will be another release soon

[GatoPharaoh]

Please give this version a try: bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:0.167-dev

did a quick test, seems to work! thank you!