element-hq / element-hq/synapse

Synapse 500's on syncing with an empty sync token

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This issue has been migrated from [#6030](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/6030).

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Calling `/sync` with `...&since=` will presumably give Synapse a sync token of "", which it will then try to do stuff with. This will cause an Exception to be raised somewhere and Synapse will throw a 500 Internal Server Error.

I assume there's likely a lot more cases of this around the codebase but at least this one could be fixed.

Brought up when writing https://github.com/ara4n/random/blob/master/bashtrix.sh

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