Writing to a socket appends random bytes to my message

Hi Everyone,
I'm a bit confused about this. I'm sending a byte array over a socket and when I read that array, I seem to always have 10 bytes appended to it. The 10 bytes are the same every time, which is really weird. I have looked all throughout my code in hopes of finding what is going wrong, but all I have discovered is that before I send the array over, those bytes are not there. As soon as I receive them, they appear.
The environment I'm working in is Java on the client side (sending side) and C++ on the server side (receiving side). And no it's not the C++ side, that code has been in production for months and has never messed up.
Thanks,
Robbie

So, don't post a lot of code. Just post a small amount of code. Boil the problem down to the smallest amount of code that will demonstrate the problem. In general, this is also a good way of debugging the problem in the first place. Just write a program to send a byte array. Like, 20 lines or something. Does it still show the problem? If so, post it here. If not, your problem lies elsewhere in your code.
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