Use urllib2 if requests is not available

gistfile1.txt

#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib2
import ssl
import json
import os

SRV_CONTEXT = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
# Configurable parameters
SRV_URL = "https://<URL>:<PORT>"
SRV_USR = "1"
SRV_PSW = "admin"


url = SRV_URL+'/api/v1/login'

data = json.dumps({
                "password": SRV_PSW,
                "employeeId": SRV_USR
            })
req = urllib2.Request(url, data, {
                "Content-Type": "application/json",
                "X-Admin-UI": "script",
                "User-Agent": "script",
            })
f = urllib2.urlopen(req, context=SRV_CONTEXT)
response = f.read()
f.close()

print response
print json.loads(response)['authToken']