Thanks for your response. I had already reviewed that post you linked with no success... not sure what to put in the generate from sample.. that rest body I copied from another post so it is likely not correct (noob)
my issue seems to be the POST request sent (that they cannot change)
here is a sample they sent me to review: it looks like its gzip encoded? I just that data at the end.
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Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n
User-Agent: OFSServiceEngine/2.0 Wink Client v1.1.2\r\n
Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n
Host: 192.168.194.67\r\n
Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n
Cookie: PHPSESSID=d8b988c7239ac56f4019b7ec57551d51\r\n
Cookie pair: PHPSESSID=d8b988c7239ac56f4019b7ec57551d51
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\n
Authorization: Basic xxxx\r\n
\r\n
[Full request URI: http://192.168.194.67/test]
[HTTP request 1/1]
[Response in frame: 2522]
HTTP chunked response
Data chunk (664 octets)
Chunk size: 664 octets
Data (664 bytes)
Data: 626c6f623d25374225323269642532322533416e756c6c25...
[Length: 664]
Chunk boundary: 0d0a
End of chunked encoding
Chunk size: 0 octets
\r\n
File Data: 664 bytes
HTML Form URL Encoded: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Form item: "blob" = "{"id":null,"createTime":368841600000,"dismissTime":0,"workcentre":"OFSSERVICETEST000","message":"OFS Alert service test.","workflow":"Alert","workstate":"Active","alertconfig":{"template":null,"uid":"00000000-0000-0000
Key: blob
Value [truncated]: {"id":null,"createTime":368841600000,"dismissTime":0,"workcentre":"OFSSERVICETEST000","message":"OFS Alert service test.","workflow":"Alert","workstate":"Active","alertconfig":{"template":null,"uid":"00000000-0000-0000-
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