Using regular TCP sockets in a vbscript program

[Macarty, Jay {PBSG}]

I want to be able to communicate with a TCP sockets based application from a 
vbscript program. I need to be able to both send and receive data over a socket 
connection. This is a fairly simple task in most languages like java, C# or 
even Autoit. However, it doesn't seem as straitforward in VBScript or JScript 
without adding some third-party COM object. Am I just missing something here?