Thank you, it turns out I was able to get the curl command to run against production site by adding the --insecure option and using the default port: curl

Thank you, it turns out I was able to get the curl command to run against production site by adding the --insecure option and using the default port: curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -X POST -d '<id type="yaml">--- !ruby/object:ActionController::Base bar: 1</id>' --insecure https:localhost