diff --git a/lib/WellKnown/WebfingerHandler.php b/lib/WellKnown/WebfingerHandler.php
index 569653be..ff3559ea 100644
--- a/lib/WellKnown/WebfingerHandler.php
+++ b/lib/WellKnown/WebfingerHandler.php
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ class WebfingerHandler implements IHandler {
 		// work around to extract resource:
 		// on some setup (i.e. tests) the data are not available from IRequest
 		$requestUri = $request->getRequestUri();
-		if ($requestUri !== null) {
+		if ($requestUri !== '') {
 			parse_str(parse_url($requestUri, PHP_URL_QUERY) ?? '', $query);
 		}