CGIDEV2 and REST web services

I'm trying to use CGIDEV2 to create some web services. I have it working when the input parameters are in the query string. Now, I'm trying to pass them in using JSON. I'm using SOAPUI to call the web service. Here is the raw request.

POST http://as400.mma-online.org:8500/read/GetClientsForName/json HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 54
Host: as400.mma-online.org:8500
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)

{"firstname":" ", "middlename":" ", "lastname":"Mast"}

When I read stdin in my program to get the JSON string, I end up with garbage. What setting am I missing.

Dean Eshleman
Software Development Architect
Everence

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