@eric73 This seems to have solved my problem! Thanks!

@livius I added tmp = uart1.readall() and it works thanks again I managed to do this before your reply thanks again you are always very helpful

@livius @jcaron <SOLVED> I managed to get this to work thanks to your help, used a sparkfun MAX3232 to step down the RS232 to UART and ASCII strings appear as expected and was able to upload them to a web server.

@alg cool, glad to hear that your problem is solved :-)