diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 20c587841..fe273ee53 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ six
 html5lib==1.0b8
 ujson>=1.35
 dill>=0.2,<0.3
-requests>=2.13.0,<3.0.0
+requests>=2.11.0,<3.0.0
 regex==2017.4.5
 ftfy>=4.4.2,<5.0.0
 pytest>=3.0.6,<4.0.0