diff --git a/apps/fpcagent/BUCK b/apps/fpcagent/BUCK
index effa245..7be0276 100644
--- a/apps/fpcagent/BUCK
+++ b/apps/fpcagent/BUCK
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     '//lib:onos-yang-model',
     '//lib:httpclient-osgi',
     '//lib:httpcore-osgi',
+    '//lib:netty',
     '//core/store/serializers:onos-core-serializers',
     '//apps/restconf/utils:onos-apps-restconf-utils',
     '//apps/config:onos-apps-config',
diff --git a/apps/fpcagent/src/main/java/org/onosproject/fpcagent/workers/HTTPNotifier.java b/apps/fpcagent/src/main/java/org/onosproject/fpcagent/workers/HTTPNotifier.java
index 8ef4c1e..926734a 100644
--- a/apps/fpcagent/src/main/java/org/onosproject/fpcagent/workers/HTTPNotifier.java
+++ b/apps/fpcagent/src/main/java/org/onosproject/fpcagent/workers/HTTPNotifier.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicResponseHandler;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
+import org.apache.http.HttpVersion;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 import org.onosproject.fpcagent.protocols.DpnNgicCommunicator;
 import org.onosproject.restconf.utils.RestconfUtils;
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@
                     httpPost.addHeader("User-Agent", "ONOS Notification Agent");
                     httpPost.addHeader("Charset", "utf-8");
                     httpPost.addHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
+                    httpPost.setProtocolVersion(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);
 
                     ResourceData dataNode = modelConverter.createDataNode(
                             DefaultModelObjectData.builder()
diff --git a/scripts/test_rules/sdf_rules.py b/scripts/test_rules/sdf_rules.py
index a76ac2e..2fa4185 100755
--- a/scripts/test_rules/sdf_rules.py
+++ b/scripts/test_rules/sdf_rules.py
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 	LOCAL_HIGH_LIMIT_PORT = 65535
 	REMOTE_LOW_LIMIT_PORT = 0
 	REMOTE_HIGH_LIMIT_PORT = 65535
-	PRECEDENCE = 0
 	PROTOCOL = hex(0)
 	PROTOCOL_MASK = hex(0)
 
@@ -67,18 +66,10 @@
 				RULE_TYPE = int(parser.get(val, \
 						'RULE_TYPE'))
 
-			if parser.has_option(val, 'RATING_GROUP'):
-				RATING_GROUP = int(parser.get(val, \
-						'RATING_GROUP'))
-
 			if parser.has_option(val, 'DIRECTION'):
 				DIRECTION = str(parser.get(val, \
 						'DIRECTION'))
 
-			if parser.has_option(val, 'PRECEDENCE'):
-				PRECEDENCE = int(parser.get(val, \
-						'PRECEDENCE'))
-
 			if parser.has_option(val, 'LOCAL_IP'):
 				LOCAL_IP = str(parser.get(val, \
 						'LOCAL_IP'))
@@ -158,13 +149,14 @@
 
 			# TBD: Need to handle exception
 			# Pack the structure and send over the zmq socket to DP
-			pub_socket.send("%s" % (struct.pack('!BBLLBI'+\
+			pub_socket.send("%s" % (struct.pack('!BBBI'+\
 				str(len(RULE_STRING))+'s',topicId, MSG_TYPE,\
-				PCC_RULE_ID, PRECEDENCE, RULE_TYPE, \
+				RULE_TYPE, \
 				len(RULE_STRING), RULE_STRING)))
-			time.sleep(1)
-			print "\nSDF Rule Values for %s ::  \nPCC_RULE_ID :%s \
-					\nPRECEDENCE :%s \nRULE_TYPE :%s \nRULE_STRING :%s"\
-					 % (val, PCC_RULE_ID, PRECEDENCE, RULE_TYPE, RULE_STRING)
+
+			print "\nSDF Rule Values for %s ::  \nRULE_ID :%s \
+					\nRULE_TYPE :%s \nRULE_STRING :%s"\
+					 % (val, PCC_RULE_ID, RULE_TYPE, RULE_STRING)
 			print '\n ---># SDF Rule Successfully sent.. #<---\n'
 	parser.clear()
+