Thanks Steve , I have to grab the response sent after the reader finishes reading my file , even if the read fails , like in the xml data above.
It polls the file first , if there is an order it reads it in and then sends back a reponse. It sends that response back to the file it is reading.
So after the order xml data ends in my code , next I am trying to grab the readers reponse back to the file, via GetHTTPRequestData().
If there is another method available I would be happy to see it. I am thinking you are right though , it could be an enoding issue and I am on CF7 ... 
Thanks for your feedback!