If I send JSON containing a colon, the PRIVMSG to the server seems to lack a vital colon

[CaiusJard]

So I'm using this project to "say" blocks of json to the server, and I was having some issues with other clients, in-chan, seeing truncated messages. I tweaked the bot.js to perform a test with json:

Said hello to it:

When this particular message is sent by the bot it seems to lack the colon at the start, as reported by my ircd:

The code for my daemon seems to bin everything after the first colon hence the truncation..

I found this:

Client.prototype.send = function(command) {
    var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);

    // Note that the command arg is included in the args array as the first element

    if (args[args.length - 1].match(/\s/) || args[args.length - 1].match(/^:/) || args[args.length - 1] === '') {
        args[args.length - 1] = ':' + args[args.length - 1];
    }

    if (this.opt.debug)
        util.log('SEND: ' + args.join(' '));

    if (!this.conn.requestedDisconnect) {
        this.conn.write(args.join(' ') + '\r\n');
    }
};

it seems to mean:

If the message contains spaces, or if the message starts with a colon, or if there is no message, add a colon?

I note my json contains no spaces, nor does it start with a colon, nor is it empty..

Is this the bug? I also see problems if I write bot.say("hello:world")