[FIXED] Why am I getting a 403 status when using requests VS urllib2?

Issue

My request works fine when using urllib2, but I get a 403 error when using requests instead.

import urllib2

   url = 'https://api.optconnect.com/summit/beta/accounts/login/app_secret'
   data = {'accountId': 000,
        'applicationId': 000,
        'secret': '000'}
   data = json.dumps(data)
   headers = {'accept': 'application/json', 'content-type': 'application/json' }
   req = urllib2.Request(url, data ,headers)
   response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
   print(response.getcode())

200

import requests


   url = 'https://api.optconnect.com/summit/beta/accounts/login/app_secret'
   data = {'accountId': 000,
        'applicationId': 000,
        'secret': '000'}
   data = json.dumps(data)
   headers = {'accept': 'application/json', 'content-type': 'application/json' }
   req = requests.get(url=url, data=data, headers=headers)
   print(req.status_code)

403

Solution

The following worked

req = requests.request("POST", url=url, data=data, headers=headers)

Answered By - rose