From bcda03d94899cb2e90a40d51dc964043cf2421fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:15:36 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Set the content-type header and use POST, which the ACME spec
 requires

---
 letsencrypt/client/client.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/letsencrypt/client/client.py b/letsencrypt/client/client.py
index 47c6328a9..09dd9b1ab 100755
--- a/letsencrypt/client/client.py
+++ b/letsencrypt/client/client.py
@@ -478,7 +478,11 @@ class Client(object):
         try:
             json_encoded = json.dumps(json_obj)
             acme_object_validate(json_encoded)
-            response = requests.get(self.server_url, data=json_encoded)
+            response = requests.post(
+                self.server_url,
+                data=json_encoded,
+                headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"},
+            )
             body = response.content
             acme_object_validate(body)
             return response.json()