Bumblebee-Project/bumblebeed — comment on commit 8eb2e533ae9c72c4acf6aebbb1e9f7249bbe6c38
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By Lekensteyn:

Because I haven't thought of that. I saw odd characters / rubbish on responses from the server and thought "missing null character". Feel free to change it if you have a better way.