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Hey, I'm having an issue with a TCP transmission using C# sockets. I wrote a test client/echo server program and tested what Wireshark can read out from the network. The data I send is precisely the data I get echoed back. The data I send is normal strings. However, when communicating with the actual server, I send a request and get a response back. The reponse is illegible. I cannot decode the received data using "Follow TCP stream". The data is supposed to be ASCII, but I see mostly dots and a few leters and numbers thrown in. In short, it´s gibberish. Does anyone have any idea why this can be? Is it possible that the data is compressed and/or encrypted? The specifications for the communication to the server machine don´t say, so I am asusming there is no compression. Could there be any other possible cause for this gibberish? Thanks.