It didnt seem to make a difference. The problem seems to be the server is closing the connection when trying to send the second piece of xml data. It responds fine to the first <div>On 11/20/05, Ulrich Staudinger <<a href="mailto:us@activestocks.de">us@activestocks.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Jabber X schrieb: <div><blockquote cite="http://mid382daab20511201209m25ff3325y711dabbff1552f3e@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">The data i am trying to send is embedded in the strings in the example <div>On 11/20/05, Ralph Meijer <<a href="mailto:jabber.org@ralphm.ik.nu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jabber.org@ralphm.ik.nu </a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:01:40PM +0000, Jabber X wrote: > I have started  coding with Jabber but am having problems early on with what i > suspect in bad formatting in the Xml. > I send the initial xml to make the stream connection and then try to register > an account but the server closes the connection. When trying this on a telnet > client it does give me a stream error which says disconnected. Occasionally > upon trying other xml such as a login stream it might say invalid xml. > I put together this quick example below to illustrate the problem. > Any help would be greatly appreciated An actual trace of the data you are trying to send that gives the errors would help... -- Groetjes, ralphm </blockquote> </div> </blockquote></div> I think you need to a) send a newline after the <?...?> xml preamble and b) insert a space in the xml preamble before the final ? (    "<?xml version='1.0' ?>\n"   ) Cheers, Ulrich </blockquote></div>