[security] Please upgrade requests version

[caleb15]

The current version of requests being used requires a old version of urllib, which is subject to two vulnerabilities:

• High severity: https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-URLLIB3-1014645
• Medium severity: https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-URLLIB3-1533435

[caleb15]

Looks like the code is not vulnerable to the high severity issue because the arguments to the method param are harcoded. It would still be nice to fix it to prevent security analyzers from complaining.