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Howdy!

I spent an hour+ trying to connect with a friend of mine for multiplayer, fiddling with router settings and what-not before I realized that I had a space (" ") in front of the IP address that I had copy-pasted into the direct connect dialog. This nefarious character had prevented us from connecting to each other, giving us a "No such host is known" each time after a few seconds (long enough for me to think that it was trying to connect to the address). Would it be possible to have the input box strip spaces from the IP address entered so that future players might not encounter the same issue?

Thanks,
Diddily

Sorry, forgot to mention, this was vanilla and I tried it it both 0.15.x and 0.15.12 (which I believe the server was running).

In 0.14 I think I have also once had problems connecting to a server that were caused by a trailing space after the port number when trying to connect to a server on a non-standard port. ( I think had inadvertently included a trailing space when copying the server address from a web page and then pasted it into the dialog field with ctrl-v).

Thanks for the report.
The leading and trailing whitespaces will be trimmed from value entered to this dialog in 0.15.14

That's awesome! Thanks so much

I find the speed of bug fixes here great, this exact issue was opened for the minecraft team since 2012 and nothing ever happened. Good job with the game and the extremely prompt bug fixes.