It is working !!! Added the domain part and I got a HTTP 200 response in Curl. same fix works in my python code as well.
tdanner,
You guys are awesome and thank you so much for pointing me right to the solution.
Now I have one quick question before I go - are there big differences between NPM v10.5 and the latest release in terms of REST API? We will upgrade to the latest if there are, as long as it won't break its integration with our NCM v7.1.1
Daniel