diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 78984783..81b39d10 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "third_party/requests-futures"]
 	path = third_party/requests-futures
 	url = https://github.com/ross/requests-futures
-[submodule "third_party/requests"]
-	path = third_party/requests
-	url = https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
 [submodule "third_party/ycmd"]
 	path = third_party/ycmd
 	url = https://github.com/Valloric/ycmd
diff --git a/third_party/requests b/third_party/requests
deleted file mode 160000
index fa338da7..00000000
--- a/third_party/requests
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit fa338da717124188b21d48df55f2fa9aca459d12
diff --git a/third_party/ycmd b/third_party/ycmd
index 0825f85f..144d93fb 160000
--- a/third_party/ycmd
+++ b/third_party/ycmd
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 0825f85ff6c3d514789c6a1d2d7945daa9bdd15d
+Subproject commit 144d93fbd9a683514ed6dabc4807513fe9e377da