diff --git a/lib/core/option.py b/lib/core/option.py
index 01976e742..04cccf4e3 100644
--- a/lib/core/option.py
+++ b/lib/core/option.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import cookielib
 import glob
 import inspect
 import logging
+import httplib
 import os
 import random
 import re