From 35025e164a3a75ba3074ec509a65d906c01a277b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wim <wim@42.be>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 23:51:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Do not forward empty message from any bridge (general).
 Closes #128

---
 gateway/gateway.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gateway/gateway.go b/gateway/gateway.go
index 5e85926e..254fb89f 100644
--- a/gateway/gateway.go
+++ b/gateway/gateway.go
@@ -178,6 +178,10 @@ func (gw *Gateway) handleMessage(msg config.Message, dest *bridge.Bridge) {
 }
 
 func (gw *Gateway) ignoreMessage(msg *config.Message) bool {
+	if msg.Text == "" {
+		log.Debugf("ignoring empty message %#v from %s", msg, msg.Account)
+		return true
+	}
 	for _, entry := range strings.Fields(gw.Bridges[msg.Account].Config.IgnoreNicks) {
 		if msg.Username == entry {
 			log.Debugf("ignoring %s from %s", msg.Username, msg.Account)