OK, in that case can you verify that the if statement in this section of your code evaluates to true and the block is actually being executed? My reading of the code suggests that if it isn't the contents of $s->{buf} will remain unchanged. That could account for your observation that you see strange ascii characters on the terminal. 
        if ($nread && $s->{opts}{86}{remote_enabled}) {
            
            my ($nout, $status) = $zlib->inflate($s->{buf});
            if (! defined $nout) {
                
                print "Error inflating: errnum: $status\n";
            
            } else {
                
                # Inflation successful
                $s->{buf} = $nout;
                $nread = length ($nout);
            }
        }

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Also, if that block is triggered, does the call to inflate pass or fail? If it fails, what does this line actually print? 
print "Error inflating: errnum: $status\n";

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In reply to Re^11: Can't decompress zlib compression stream with Compress:Zlib by pmqs
in thread Can't decompress zlib compression stream with Compress:Zlib by Anonymous Monk

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