CFhttpparam Authorization Header Issue - json

Question

Background: I am using cfhttp and an auth token provided to me by a vendors API to do two GET calls. The first one fails the second is successful.
Call #1 is supposed to return a list of Order ID's in JSON format.
Call #2 uses one of those Order ID's to return a full order again in JSON format.
The calls are outlined below:
Request all of the ORDER ID's
<cfhttp method="get" url="https://test-9832.APIURL.com/criminal_api//1.0/service/requests" result="orderFirst">
<cfhttpparam type="Header" name="Authorization" value="Bearer 5BDCECFBDBE4680E74C8B81A58EAC544">
</cfhttp>
Request a full order based on the same auth token and one of the Order Ids returned in the previous step:
<cfhttp method="get" url="https://test-9832.APIURL.com/criminal_api//1.0/service/requests/WB-042916-YH59Z-PL-001" result="orderFull">
<cfhttpparam type="Header" name="Authorization" value="Bearer 5BDCECFBDBE4680E74C8B81A58EAC544">
</cfhttp>
The calls are using the same exact cfhttpparam and value the only difference is the URL. The vendor mentioned they sometimes see issues if the Auth Token is double encoded. I am setting the auth token value statically at this point just to get it to work.
Below is a cfdump of what is returned in Step #1 that fails:
struct
Charset UTF-8
ErrorDetail [empty string]
Filecontent Connection Failure
Header HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: close Expires: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 PST Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:47:01 GMT Server: hws Pragma: No-cache Cache-Control: no-cache Set-Cookie: X-HR-ClientSessionId=2_12.161.115.226_1473828421271;Secure; path=/; HttpOnly Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Mimetype application/json
Responseheader
struct
Cache-Control no-cache
Connection close
Content-Type application/json;charset=UTF-8
Date Wed, 14 Sep 2016 04:47:01 GMT
Expires Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 PST
Explanation OK
Http_Version HTTP/1.1
Pragma No-cache
Server hws
Set-Cookie X-HR-ClientSessionId=2_12.161.115.226_1473828421271;Secure; path=/; HttpOnly
Status_Code 200
Statuscode 200 OK
Text NO
The status code is showing 200 OK but the file contents is Connection Failure.
QUESTION: Is there anything else I can add to my script to help debug or test?