diff --git a/hoover/session.py b/hoover/session.py
index e8f7f75..3958960 100644
--- a/hoover/session.py
+++ b/hoover/session.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     from urllib import urlencode
 except ImportError:
     from urllib.parse import urlencode
-from httplib2 import Http
+import requests
 try:
     from simplejson import loads
 except ImportError:
@@ -33,27 +33,18 @@ def __init__(self, subdomain, username, password, domain=None, proxy=None,
         self.protocol = secure and 'https' or 'http'
 
     def _api_help(self, endpoint, params=None, method='GET'):
-        h = Http()
-        h.add_credentials(self.username, self.password)
+        import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
+        s = requests.Session()
+        s.auth = (self.username, self.password)
         url = '%s://%s.%s/%s' % (self.protocol, self.subdomain, self.domain,
                                  endpoint)
-        if method == 'GET':
-            body = ''
-            if params:
-                url += '?' + urlencode(params)
-        elif params:
+        body = ''
+        if params and method != 'GET':
             body = urlencode(params)
-        else:
-            body = ''
-        headers, results = h.request(url, method, body)
-        status = headers['status']
-        if int(status) == 401:
-            raise AuthFail('Sorry, your authentication was not accepted.')
-        # TODO check status, raise appropriate errors or something
-        try:
-            return loads(results.decode('utf-8'))
-        except ValueError:
-            return results
+            params = None
+        response = s.request(method, url, params=params, data=body, verify=True)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        return response.json()
 
     @property
     def inputs(self):
diff --git a/hoover/utils.py b/hoover/utils.py
index 441f42f..4dc70a1 100644
--- a/hoover/utils.py
+++ b/hoover/utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 from functools import wraps
-from httplib2 import Http
+import requests
 
 
 def async(func):
@@ -23,14 +23,13 @@ def newfunc(*args, **kwargs):
 
 
 def post_to_endpoint(endpoint, message, encoding='utf-8'):
-    h = Http()
     # If unicode, try to encode
     if isinstance(message, unicode):
         try:
             message = message.encode(encoding)
         except UnicodeEncodeError:
             pass
-    h.request(endpoint, 'POST', message)
+    requests.post(endpoint, message, verify=True)
 async_post_to_endpoint = async(post_to_endpoint)
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4374183..256b4d7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
     from distutils.core import setup
 
 setup(name='Hoover',
-      version='0.5.3',
+      version='0.5.4',
       description="Library for logging to Loggly from within Python webapps",
       author="Mike Blume",
       author_email="mike@loggly.com",
       url="http://www.github.com/loggly/hoover",
       packages=['hoover'],
-      install_requires=['httplib2'],
+      install_requires=['requests'],
 )