Thread: Socket or send() problem?

I posted another topic about needing to Multithread, and I got that workin' all fine and dandy, but now it seems that my socket is buggin' out.

Problem:
I'm connecting to an IRC server and trying to send/recieve whatever data that I need, but my send is acting kind of funny. Upon connecting to the server, I recieve the first message fine:

:irc.XXX.com NOTICE AUTH :*** Found your hostname

Therefore my recv is working just fine. But I then try to send the USER and NICK command to the IRC server (which should produce a crapload of messages from the server), but it doesn't seem to be going through. I know its not sending because my friend is hosting the IRC server, and can detect when someone sends the USER and NICK commands, and he is getting nothing when I supposively send. I am getting no response from the server when I try to send it data... not even an error message when I send some spam. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

NOTE: I'm coding in Windows, using winsock2 library.

Code:

Socket connection, setup, etc.

Code:

	wVersionRequested = MAKEWORD( 2, 2 );
	err = WSAStartup(wVersionRequested, &wsaData );

	if(err != 0) {
		printf("WSA startup fail.\n");
	}
	
	
	m_socket = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
	if(m_socket == INVALID_SOCKET){
		printf( "Error at socket(): %ld\n", WSAGetLastError() );   
	}

	clientService.sin_family = AF_INET;
	clientService.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr( hostToIP("irc.XXX.com") );
	clientService.sin_port = htons( 6667 );

	if ( connect( m_socket, (SOCKADDR*) &clientService,
			   sizeof(clientService) ) == SOCKET_ERROR) {
		printf( "Failed to connect.\n" );
		WSACleanup();
	} else {
		printf("Connection Success!\n\n");
	}

send() loop:

Code:

	do {
		if((s_ready = select(0, NULL, &fd, NULL, NULL)) != SOCKET_ERROR) {
			gets(input);
			if(strstr("/q", input)) break;
			bSent = send(m_socket, input, sizeof(char)*strlen(input), 0);
			printf("Sent(%d): %s\n", bSent, input);
			flusher(input);
		}	
	} while (1);

recv() loop:

Code:

	while(go == 1) {
		if((err = ioctlsocket(m_socket, FIONREAD, &l)) == SOCKET_ERROR) {
			printf("Error: ioctlsocket(). error: %d\n", WSAGetLastError());
			break;
		} else if(l > 0) {
				printf("Trying to recieve...\n");
				bytesIn = recv(m_socket, rec, BUFFMAX, 0);
				if(bytesIn > 0) {
				
					printf("%s", rec);
					rec[0] = '\0';
				}
		}
		ready = 1;
	}

The two latter snippets of code are running simotaneously via multithreading. This program shoould essentially be a telnet program untill I get some command parsing going on .

Note 2: flusher() and hostToIP() are functions that I have created.