>Sorry- autoquote was turned off...there's a lot of smoke in the air here in Denver today - must be affecting my cognition! ;-) See below for comments.

You only have to edit your own message. Corrections can be made directly in any message of yours while no reply in his effect.

>This is fine except for one client who sends all in a blob with no cr's. I can test for the length of a line and deal with it that way, I guess.

SOAP 3 will clearly help you here as attachment will be the way to go for this.

I would do as you say by adding a small verification to see if you have a carriage return after each received string from the server side. So, as long as you have that exception, you may keep that verification in your code.