code:

 static string ReadAlarms(SslStream sslStream)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("in ReadAlarms");

            byte[] buffer = new byte[15000]; //wow look @ that buffer size.  
            StringBuilder messageData = new StringBuilder();
            int bytes = -1;
            sslStream.ReadTimeout = 10000; //this is 3 seconds
            try
            {
                do
                {

                    bytes = sslStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
                    Decoder decoder = Encoding.UTF8.GetDecoder();
                    char[] chars = new char[decoder.GetCharCount(buffer, 0, bytes)];
                    decoder.GetChars(buffer, 0, bytes, chars, 0);
                    messageData.Append(chars);
                    

                } while (bytes != 0);
            }

            catch (Exception)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Incoming data stream empty, dumping buffer to parser.");
                return messageData.ToString();
            }

            return messageData.ToString();



        }