diff --git a/0001-Depend-on-requests-2.0.1.patch b/0001-Depend-on-requests-2.0.1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..206818c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-Depend-on-requests-2.0.1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From 3a6fb4eafa2d9ea42bd3806a3eba51b07cb9c70c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Sascha Peilicke <saschpe@gmx.de>
+Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:57:04 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Depend on requests>=2.0.1
+
+requests.packages.urllib3.connection was added with 2.0.1 and is
+imported by wsgi_intercept/requests_intercept.py.
+---
+ setup.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 0d62f78..f5ca681 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ META = {
+         'testing': [
+             'pytest>=2.4',
+             'httplib2',
+-            'requests'
++            'requests>=2.0.1'
+         ],
+     },
+ }
+-- 
+1.8.5.2
+
diff --git a/python-wsgi_intercept.changes b/python-wsgi_intercept.changes
index 5927d9c..b12b68c 100644
--- a/python-wsgi_intercept.changes
+++ b/python-wsgi_intercept.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jan 30 14:01:10 UTC 2014 - speilicke@suse.com
+
+- Added 0001-Depend-on-requests-2.0.1.patch: Require requests>=2.0.1.
+  Really a requirement
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan 17 15:47:55 UTC 2014 - speilicke@suse.com
 
diff --git a/python-wsgi_intercept.spec b/python-wsgi_intercept.spec
index 3fb809d..4328f9f 100644
--- a/python-wsgi_intercept.spec
+++ b/python-wsgi_intercept.spec
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
 BuildRequires:  python-httplib2
 BuildRequires:  python-nose
 BuildRequires:  python-pytest >= 2.4
-BuildRequires:  python-requests
-Recommends:     python-requests
+BuildRequires:  python-requests >= 2.0.1
+Recommends:     python-requests >= 2.0.1
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 %if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} <= 1110
 %{!?python_sitelib: %global python_sitelib %(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}