diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bab34ce176..d5d637870c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ adodbapi==2.6.0.7
 pyro4==4.35 # required by adodbapi
 
 # checks.d/riak.py
-httplib2==0.9
+httplib2==0.19.0
 
 # checks.d/kafka_consumer.py
 kafka-python==1.2.5