docs: def post(self, uri, params={}, data={}):
          '''A generic method to make POST requests on the given URI.'''
          return requests.post(
              urlparse.urljoin(self.BASE_URL, uri),
              params=params, data=json.dumps(data), verify=False,
              auth=self.auth, headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'text/plain'})