diff --git a/src/crawlee/http_clients/curl_impersonate.py b/src/crawlee/http_clients/curl_impersonate.py
index 6cd985eda..a360a847c 100644
--- a/src/crawlee/http_clients/curl_impersonate.py
+++ b/src/crawlee/http_clients/curl_impersonate.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ async def crawl(
         try:
             response = await client.request(
                 url=request.url,
-                method=str(request.method.upper()),  # type: ignore
+                method=request.method.upper(),  # type: ignore # curl-cffi requires uppercase method
                 headers=request.headers,
                 params=request.query_params,
                 data=request.payload,
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ async def send_request(
         try:
             response = await client.request(
                 url=url,
-                method=method.upper(),  # type: ignore
+                method=method.upper(),  # type: ignore # curl-cffi requires uppercase method
                 headers=headers,
                 params=query_params,
                 data=payload,
diff --git a/tests/unit/_utils/test_requests.py b/tests/unit/_utils/test_requests.py
index ba744b37d..3d7801c19 100644
--- a/tests/unit/_utils/test_requests.py
+++ b/tests/unit/_utils/test_requests.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def test_normalize_url(url: str, expected_output: str, *, keep_url_fragment: boo
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    ('url', 'method', 'data', 'keep_url_fragment', 'use_extended_unique_key', 'expected_output'),
+    ('url', 'method', 'payload', 'keep_url_fragment', 'use_extended_unique_key', 'expected_output'),
     [
         ('http://example.com', 'GET', None, False, False, 'http://example.com'),
         ('http://example.com', 'POST', None, False, False, 'http://example.com'),
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ def test_normalize_url(url: str, expected_output: str, *, keep_url_fragment: boo
 def test_compute_unique_key(
     url: str,
     method: HttpMethod,
-    data: HttpPayload,
+    payload: HttpPayload,
     *,
     keep_url_fragment: bool,
     use_extended_unique_key: bool,
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def test_compute_unique_key(
     output = compute_unique_key(
         url,
         method,
-        data,
+        payload,
         keep_url_fragment=keep_url_fragment,
         use_extended_unique_key=use_extended_unique_key,
     )