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Ensure you are Connecting to an HL7 Server

If you are writing an HL7 client, be careful that you are actually connecting to an HL7 server. One problem we have seen was a customer thought they were connecting to a remote HL7 server but was in fact connecting to a web server running on the local machine. This was confusing because a web server will accept the HL7 message and generate an error response which an HL7 server will ignore. The web server will then break the TCP/IP connection.