Merge remote-tracking branch 'pr/267'

Author: honzakral

AUTHORS

@@ -47,3 +47,4 @@ Xiuming Chen <cc@cxm.cc>
 David Szotten <davidszotten@gmail.com>
 Jorgen Jorgensen <jayjaypy@barskdata.net>
 Jason Veatch <jtveatch@gmail.com>
+Daniel <dmg.lab@outlook.com>

elasticsearch/client/__init__.py

@@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ def count(self, index=None, doc_type=None, body=None, params=None):
  if doc_type and not index:
  index = '_all'
 
- _, data = self.transport.perform_request('POST', _make_path(index,
+ _, data = self.transport.perform_request('GET', _make_path(index,
  doc_type, '_count'), params=params, body=body)
  return data