Qt tcp/ip server (sort of) works with raw telnet, but not python, netcat or PuTTy w/telnet

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I have a Qt tcp/ip server listening on a port. I can talk to it with telnet, but when I try with netcat the input commands are truncated. When I try to send it a command through python, it doesn't see anything. The strangest behaviour is with PuTTY (see below). Has anyone else run into an issue like this with a Qt tcp server? Code follows.

Server

@QTcpServer remoteControlServer;

remoteControlClient = remoteControlServer.nextPendingConnection();

connect(remoteControlClient, SIGNAL(readyRead()), this, SLOT(remoteCommandRead()));@

The command interpreter -> If it's not the setup or configuration of the server, this is where I suspect the problem is. Is canReadLine() not doing what I want? I am just sending strings, so the line-oriented protocol is what I think I should be using. I do not undersand why, but if I chop two bytes off of the string, telnet works. The last two bytes are \r\n. Shouldn't simplified() remove those? If simplified doesn't work on a QByteArray why does this compile without errors in Qt Creator?

@ void MainWindow::remoteCommandRead()
{
QByteArray lineBuffer;
QByteArray consoleString;
QByteArray command;
QList<QByteArray> commandList;

while(remoteControlClient->canReadLine())
    {
        lineBuffer = remoteControlClient->readLine();
        lineBuffer.chop(2);
        lineBuffer.simplified();

        commandList = lineBuffer.split(' ');@

The python client

@import socket
remote_sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
server_address = ('address', port)
remote_sock.connect(server_address)
remote_sock.sendall('commandString')@

Using telnet trhough PuTTy I discovered that there is some junk hanging around somewhere which I need to flush, but I don't know how much there is, where it is coming from or how to filter it out. When I enter a command using PuTTy the first time, the Qtserver side replies
Unknown: ���� ����'������connect.
The next time it gets Unknown: ���� ����'��'connect'
Then Unknown: ��$connect
And eventually it works and accepts the command Command: connect

Any ideas about what is going on here?

Many Thanks.