diff --git a/lri-middleware/requirements.txt b/lri-middleware/requirements.txt
index 5282453..518c4fe 100644
--- a/lri-middleware/requirements.txt
+++ b/lri-middleware/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 beautifulsoup4==4.2.0
-requests==1.2.0
+requests==2.20.0
 web.py==0.37