diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 68dde940..ad2f1a83 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@
 [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
diff --git a/third_party/requests b/third_party/requests
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..9968a10f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/requests
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 9968a10fcfad7268b552808c4f8946eecafc956a