>>>>There appears to be a control character on the 13th line. Could that be it?
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>>>I have converted that line to an empty string and it doesn't change anything. There is something else.
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>>Well, it turned out that it was indeed that line. The box character is creating the problem. I am looking for its equivalent to replace that. But, this brings an interesting question. What's the proper way of making sure no other characters like that create a problem in SOAP?
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>I dont know for special chars...
>But i think you may replace restricted chars in the
>return string like the "less than" and "greater than"
>to avoid the case where your closing sequence will be
>in the string like this

As I mentioned, those doesn't cause any problem. We process thousands of messages being downloaded every day. Today's situation was related to an isolated case. I applied a conversion to avoid any other occurrence for such case.