import requests
import json

data = {
    'user_id':'1',
    'auth_token':'API1_cd6013db25a96af11cf1291ef3187cba4937b354',
    'auth_secret_token':'KEY1_b7bf3edadf01f4d3cf3409bbb17304b69c799dcd0b846e0b4e8ecc808164b6cdd297129e875525ad2430cf09989fab7c212b'
}

jsonData = json.dumps( data )

r = requests.post( 'http://cis.epictestsite.com/api/authenticate' , data = jsonData)

print( r.status_code )
print( r.headers['content-type'] )
print( r.encoding )

print( r.text )
# print( r.json() )