Bot can't send chat messages containing whitespace

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[quote=“IllusionaryOne, post:7, topic:8683, full:false”]
Not to troll or anything, but the Twitch docs do indicate:

PRIVMSG: Sending a message
PRIVMSG #channel **:**Message to send

As you can see, the colon is required before the message[/quote]
Where in the twitch docs does it say it’s required? Because it isn’t, or at least not for channel messages without whitespace. You can even send whispers containing whitespace without the use of a colon.

@IllusionaryOne

… and did some light reading on the IRC standard as well as the Twitch documents for their specific deviations from the standard.
That deviation can sometimes cause heartburn for sure.

That’s part of the issue. They claim to closely follow the standard RFC, but I keep hearing differently from other posters who state that there are too many deviations. Possibly even more than what they have documented. The docs feel less like “instead of X we do Y”, and more like “here are a few possible things that you can do/expect”. From what I’ve read & experimented with, not everything is as black & white as most other organization’s docs. I seriously feel it is lacking, and I know that I’m not alone in that opinion.

@broadstone

I’d also like to add that to fully conform, you also need to terminate your IRC messages with an explicit trailing \r\n. (CR-LF)

Yeah, I already figured that. I kinda saw it as common sense, since the majority of my previous network-related programming projects do the same thing. It’s usually either that, or a null terminator. Thanks!