diff --git a/configuration.txt b/configuration.txt
index 18434cf4..17a1b2b6 100644
--- a/configuration.txt
+++ b/configuration.txt
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ web:
     
     joinmessage: "%playername% joined"
     quitmessage: "%playername% quit"
+    spammessage: "You may only chat once every %interval% seconds."
     
     defaultworld: world
     worlds:
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/dynmap/DynmapPlugin.java b/src/main/java/org/dynmap/DynmapPlugin.java
index f6f790b9..f233f264 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/dynmap/DynmapPlugin.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/dynmap/DynmapPlugin.java
@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ public class DynmapPlugin extends JavaPlugin {
 
         if (configuration.getNode("web").getBoolean("allowwebchat", false)) {
             SendMessageHandler messageHandler = new SendMessageHandler() {{
-                maximumMessageInterval = (int)(configuration.getNode("web").getDouble("webchat-interval", 1.0) * 1000);
+                maximumMessageInterval = (configuration.getNode("web").getInt("webchat-interval", 1) * 1000);
+				spamMessage = "\""+configuration.getNode("web").getString("spammessage", "You may only chat once every %interval% seconds.")+"\"";
                 onMessageReceived.addListener(new Listener<SendMessageHandler.Message>() {
                     @Override
                     public void triggered(Message t) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/dynmap/web/handlers/SendMessageHandler.java b/src/main/java/org/dynmap/web/handlers/SendMessageHandler.java
index 2825bfaf..afca89a4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/dynmap/web/handlers/SendMessageHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/dynmap/web/handlers/SendMessageHandler.java
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package org.dynmap.web.handlers;
 
+import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@ public class SendMessageHandler implements HttpHandler {
     public Event<Message> onMessageReceived = new Event<SendMessageHandler.Message>();
     
     public int maximumMessageInterval = 1000;
+	public String spamMessage = "\"You may only chat once every %interval% seconds.\"";
     private HashMap<String, WebUser> disallowedUsers = new HashMap<String, WebUser>();
     private LinkedList<WebUser> disallowedUserQueue = new LinkedList<WebUser>();
     private Object disallowedUsersLock = new Object();
@@ -65,9 +68,21 @@ public class SendMessageHandler implements HttpHandler {
                 disallowedUsers.put(user.name, user);
                 disallowedUserQueue.add(user);
             } else {
-                response.fields.put(HttpField.ContentLength, "0");
-                response.status = HttpStatus.Forbidden;
-                response.getBody();
+                spamMessage = spamMessage.replaceAll("%interval%", Integer.toString(maximumMessageInterval/1000));
+                byte[] stringBytes = spamMessage.getBytes();
+                String dateStr = new Date().toString();
+
+                response.fields.put("Date", dateStr);
+                response.fields.put("Content-Type", "text/plain");
+                response.fields.put("Expires", "Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT");
+                response.fields.put("Last-modified", dateStr);
+                response.fields.put("Content-Length", Integer.toString(stringBytes.length));
+                response.status = HttpStatus.OK;
+
+                BufferedOutputStream out = null;
+                out = new BufferedOutputStream(response.getBody());
+                out.write(stringBytes);
+                out.flush();
                 return;
             }
         }
diff --git a/web/js/chat.js b/web/js/chat.js
index 49bc792d..13ed1e00 100644
--- a/web/js/chat.js
+++ b/web/js/chat.js
@@ -1,23 +1,21 @@
+var ip;
+$.ajax({
+	type: "GET",
+	url: "http://jsonip.appspot.com/?callback=?",
+	dataType: "jsonp",
+	success: function(getip) { ip = getip.ip; }
+	});
 function sendChat(me, message) {
-	var ip;
+	var data = '{"name":"'+ip+'","message":"'+message+'"}';
 	$.ajax({
-		type: "GET",
-		url: "http://jsonip.appspot.com/?callback=?",
-		dataType: "jsonp",
-		success: function(getip) {
-				var data = '{"name":"'+getip.ip+'","message":"'+message+'"}';
-				$.ajax({
-					type: 'POST',
-					url: 'up/sendmessage',
-					data: data,
-					dataType: 'json',
-					success: function(response) {
-						//handle response
-						if(response)
-							me.onPlayerChat('', response);
-				}
-			});
+		type: 'POST',
+		url: 'up/sendmessage',
+		data: data,
+		dataType: 'json',
+		success: function(response) {
+			//handle response
+			if(response)
+				me.onPlayerChat('', response);
 		}
 	});
-}
-//curl -d '{"name":"Nickname","message":"Hello"}' http://localhost:8123/up/sendmessage
+}
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diff --git a/web/js/map.js b/web/js/map.js
index 67dd0cc3..5125a179 100644
--- a/web/js/map.js
+++ b/web/js/map.js
@@ -213,8 +213,11 @@ DynMap.prototype = {
 					.keydown(function(event) {
 						if (event.keyCode == '13') {
 							event.preventDefault();
-							sendChat(me, chatinput.val());
-							chatinput.val('');
+							if(chatinput.val() != '')
+							{
+								sendChat(me, chatinput.val());
+								chatinput.val('');
+							}
 						}
 					})
 					.appendTo(chat);
diff --git a/web/standalone/sendmessage.php b/web/standalone/sendmessage.php
index f36b8961..16361100 100644
--- a/web/standalone/sendmessage.php
+++ b/web/standalone/sendmessage.php
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 <?php
-$msginterval = 5; //In seconds - add this to dynmap web config??
-
 session_start();
+
+$config =  json_decode(file_get_contents('dynmap_config.json'), true);
+$msginterval = $config['webchat-interval'];
+
 if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST' && $_SESSION['lastchat'] < time())
 {
-	$config =  json_decode(file_get_contents('dynmap_config.json'), true);
 	$micro = explode(' ', microtime());
 	$timestamp = $micro[1].round($micro[0]*1000);
 	
@@ -25,8 +26,7 @@ if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST' && $_SESSION['lastchat'] < time())
 }
 elseif($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST' && $_SESSION['lastchat'] > time())
 {
-	echo json_encode('You may only chat once every '.$msginterval.' seconds.');
+	echo json_encode(str_replace('%interval%', $msginterval, $config['spammessage']));
 }
 
-
 ?>
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