Add TLS support to the docker container command line

[csjperon]

• Introduce two options --port and --protocol which will allow users to override the YAML specification and test using TLS (or on alternate ports)
• Properly handle exceptions when we are expecting gzip'ed data but actually get clear text (or invalid compressed data)
• Update some unit tests which are outdated now
• Add basic documentation for the new options
• Make sure we aren't stripping escape characters from the YAML specification