diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 3dca62cb..c98498d2 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ bashate>=0.2 # Apache-2.0
 flake8<2.6.0,>=2.5.4 # MIT
 pyasn1 # BSD
 pyOpenSSL>=0.14 # Apache-2.0
-requests!=2.12.2,!=2.13.0,>=2.10.0 # Apache-2.0
+requests>=2.14.2 # Apache-2.0
 ndg-httpsclient>=0.4.2;python_version<'3.0' # BSD
 
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