Add FlushSocket before reading input #36
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When reading input from the socket, often you will read leftover data from it.
This results in static noise, because you're reading previously scanned RFID's.
The FlushSocket function will flush the socket by reading the buffer size from the socket and discarding it. This will have tests succeed in the PDS codebase.
Please take a look and see if this is the proper solution, I feel it might not be an industry standard way of solving this probably quite common problem. The reason I picked this solutoin, instead of filtering out the noise, is because the RFID scanner sends its RFID's over the socket without delimiters, making parsing impossible.