note 10717 rejected and deleted from Socket functions by torben

Using sockets for communication between Unix web server and com object sitting on Win 2000 machine. I'm noticing some problems with the client side. Basically, I'm using "write($socket, $writestr, (strlen ($writestr))" to write a command to the socket server (written in Perl), then using "read($socket, $sockstring, 2048)" to read the response. 99 out of 100 times, this works fine. However, occasionally, my read returns nothing even though the server has returned a response. Any idea why this is happening?