title: Is this a Post request issue or an SSL verification issue
body: <p>I'm trying to use a certain company's (not yet public) API.  In their documentation they lay out the format of the Token request.  Here's a copy of the documentation for a Token request:</p>
  <pre><code>POST
  https://***.****.com/auth/realms/****/protocol/openid-connec
  t/token
  Headers:
      Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
      Authorization: Basic {base64-encoded-key-and-secret}
  Body: grant_type:client_credentials
  </code></pre>
  <p>The authorization key was given to me by them and is of the form <code>'Basic a3RhdmlfdG...'</code>
  I'm trying to write a Post request in python and I'm having issues and I'm not sure if it's my fault or their developers fault.  Here's my code:</p>
  <pre><code>url = 'https://***.****.com/auth/realms/****/protocol/openid-connect/token'
  headers = {'Content-Type':'application/x-www-urlencoded', 'Authorization':'Basic a3RhdmlfdG...'}
  body = {'grant_type':'client_credentials'}
  response = requests.post(url = url, data = json.dumps(body), headers = headers)
  print response
  </code></pre>
  <p>At the line where <code>response = ...</code>I'm getting an <code>SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED</code> error.  I've also tried changing the values in the headers to random values and I get the same error.  I can think of three possibilities, either</p>
  <ol>
  <li><p>I'm making the Post request incorrectly</p>
  </li>
  <li><p>There is a problem with the API</p>
  </li>
  <li><p>I'm missing a certificate which I have to send with the Post request</p>
  <p>Is it one of these issues or is it something else?</p>
  </li>
  </ol>