diff --git a/examples/lobby.js b/examples/lobby.js
index 437cfe40f3..7b89ab02a9 100644
--- a/examples/lobby.js
+++ b/examples/lobby.js
@@ -171,17 +171,6 @@ function playRandomMusak() {
 }
 
 function cleanupLobby() {
-  
-  // for each of the 21 placeholder textures, set them back to default so the cached model doesn't have changed textures
-  var panelTexturesReset = {};
-  panelTexturesReset["textures"] = {};
-    
-  for (var j = 0; j < MAX_NUM_PANELS; j++) {
-    panelTexturesReset["textures"]["file" + (j + 1)] = HIFI_PUBLIC_BUCKET + "models/sets/Lobby/LobbyPrototype/Texture.jpg";
-  };
-    
-  Overlays.editOverlay(panelWall, panelTexturesReset);
-  
   Overlays.deleteOverlay(panelWall);
   Overlays.deleteOverlay(orbShell);
   
diff --git a/libraries/networking/src/AddressManager.cpp b/libraries/networking/src/AddressManager.cpp
index 6113cadb06..81b3a1328b 100644
--- a/libraries/networking/src/AddressManager.cpp
+++ b/libraries/networking/src/AddressManager.cpp
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ bool AddressManager::handleUrl(const QUrl& lookupUrl) {
 void AddressManager::handleLookupString(const QString& lookupString) {
     if (!lookupString.isEmpty()) {
         // make this a valid hifi URL and handle it off to handleUrl
-        QString sanitizedString = lookupString;
+        QString sanitizedString = lookupString.trimmed();
         QUrl lookupURL;
         
         if (!lookupString.startsWith('/')) {