Apple Pay Web Merchant Registration Authentication Requirements

I am trying to do a mass enablement of a merchant ids for a psp. The ids have been approved by apple. I am attempting to add more using the Post Request: https://apple-pay-gateway.apple.com/paymentservices/registerMerchant

(https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applepaywebmerchantregistrationapi/register_merchant) but am always getting a Refuse to connect error.

What authentication is required to get a 200 successful response?

Apple Pay Web Merchant Registration Authentication Requirements
 
 
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