diff --git a/lib/middleware/discourse_public_exceptions.rb b/lib/middleware/discourse_public_exceptions.rb
index ffc281d85a2..c40f319a3ae 100644
--- a/lib/middleware/discourse_public_exceptions.rb
+++ b/lib/middleware/discourse_public_exceptions.rb
@@ -29,7 +29,15 @@ module Middleware
         begin
           fake_controller = ApplicationController.new
           fake_controller.response = response
-          fake_controller.request = ActionDispatch::Request.new(env)
+          fake_controller.request = request = ActionDispatch::Request.new(env)
+
+          begin
+            request.format
+          rescue Mime::Type::InvalidMimeType
+            # got to do something here, we can not ship invalid format
+            # to the exception handler cause it will explode
+            request.format = "html"
+          end
 
           if ApplicationController.rescue_with_handler(exception, object: fake_controller)
             body = response.body
diff --git a/spec/components/middleware/discourse_public_exceptions_spec.rb b/spec/components/middleware/discourse_public_exceptions_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ac1a0cc6ceb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/components/middleware/discourse_public_exceptions_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+require "rails_helper"
+
+describe Middleware::DiscoursePublicExceptions do
+  before do
+    @orig_logger = Rails.logger
+    Rails.logger = @fake_logger = FakeLogger.new
+  end
+
+  after do
+    Rails.logger = @orig_logger
+  end
+
+  def env(opts = {})
+    {
+      "HTTP_HOST" => "http://test.com",
+      "REQUEST_URI" => "/path?bla=1",
+      "REQUEST_METHOD" => "GET",
+      "rack.input" => ""
+    }.merge(opts)
+  end
+
+  it "should not log for invalid mime type requests" do
+    ex = Middleware::DiscoursePublicExceptions.new("/test")
+
+    ex.call(env(
+      "HTTP_ACCEPT" => "../broken../",
+      "action_dispatch.exception" => ActionController::RoutingError.new("abc")
+    ))
+
+    expect(@fake_logger.warnings.length).to eq(0)
+  end
+
+end