def METHOD_NAME(self, request_uri, body=None, headers=None):
    """Perform GET request and generate response."""
    if (self._conn is None):
        raise TypeError("Failed to create connection instance")
    if (headers is None):
        headers = {
            "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
            "Accept": "text/plain"}
    self._conn.request('GET', request_uri, body, headers)
    response = self._conn.getresponse()
    result = {'status': response.status, 'headers': response.getheaders(),
              'body': response.read(), 'reason': response.reason}
    self._conn.close()
    return result