diff --git a/modules/eval_lua.py b/modules/eval_lua.py
index bb5dd868..5208d00e 100644
--- a/modules/eval_lua.py
+++ b/modules/eval_lua.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ class Module(ModuleManager.BaseModule):
     def eval(self, event):
         try:
             page = utils.http.get_url(EVAL_URL,
-                post_params={"input": event["args"]},
+                post_data={"input": event["args"]},
                 method="POST",
                 soup=True)
         except socket.timeout:
diff --git a/modules/eval_rust.py b/modules/eval_rust.py
index d0399b95..0b9d03d9 100644
--- a/modules/eval_rust.py
+++ b/modules/eval_rust.py
@@ -9,6 +9,15 @@ fn main() {
     });
 }
 """
+API_ARGS = {
+    "channel": "nightly",
+    "crateType": "bin",
+    "mode": "debug",
+    "tests": False,
+    "execute": True,
+    "target": "ast",
+    "backtrace": False
+}
 
 class Module(ModuleManager.BaseModule):
     _name = "Rust"
@@ -18,17 +27,11 @@ class Module(ModuleManager.BaseModule):
         :help: Evaluate a rust statement
         :usage: <statement>
         """
+        args = API_ARGS.copy()
+        args["code"] = FN_TEMPLATE % event["args"]
         try:
-            page = utils.http.get_url(EVAL_URL, post_data=json.dumps({
-                "code": FN_TEMPLATE % event["args"],
-                "channel": "nightly",
-                "crateType": "bin",
-                "mode": "debug",
-                "tests": False,
-                "execute": True,
-                "target": "ast",
-                "backtrace": False
-            }), method="POST", json=True)
+            page = utils.http.get_url(EVAL_URL, json_data=args,
+                method="POST", json=True)
         except socket.timeout:
             event["stderr"].write("%s: eval timed out" %
                 event["user"].nickname)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 94a9544e..3b9a5b46 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 beautifulsoup4
 python-telegram-bot
+requests
 scrypt
 suds-jurko
 twitter
+
diff --git a/src/utils/http.py b/src/utils/http.py
index 8a2832b4..0a0665d5 100644
--- a/src/utils/http.py
+++ b/src/utils/http.py
@@ -1,102 +1,49 @@
-import re, traceback, urllib.error, urllib.parse, urllib.request
-import json, ssl
-import bs4
+import re, traceback, urllib.error, urllib.parse
+import json as _json
+import bs4, requests
 
 USER_AGENT = ("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 "
     "(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36")
 REGEX_HTTP = re.compile("https?://", re.I)
 
-def get_url(url, **kwargs):
+def get_url(url, method="GET", get_params={}, post_data=None, headers={},
+        json_data=None, code=False, json=False, soup=False, parser="lxml"):
+
     if not urllib.parse.urlparse(url).scheme:
         url = "http://%s" % url
-    url_parsed = urllib.parse.urlparse(url)
 
-    method = kwargs.get("method", "GET")
-    get_params = kwargs.get("get_params", "")
-    post_params = kwargs.get("post_params", None)
-    post_data = kwargs.get("post_data", None)
-    headers = kwargs.get("headers", {})
-    return_code = kwargs.get("code", False)
+    if not "Accept-Language" in headers:
+        headers["Accept-Language"] = "en-GB"
+    if not "User-Agent" in headers:
+        headers["User-Agent"] = USER_AGENT
 
-    if get_params:
-        get_params = "?%s" % urllib.parse.urlencode(get_params)
-    if post_params:
-        post_data = urllib.parse.urlencode(post_params)
+    response = requests.request(
+        method.upper(),
+        url,
+        headers=headers,
+        params=get_params,
+        data=post_data,
+        json=json_data
+    )
 
-    url = "%s%s" % (url, get_params)
-    try:
-        url.encode("latin-1")
-        if post_data:
-            post_data = post_data.encode("utf8")
-    except UnicodeEncodeError:
-        if return_code:
-            return 0, False
-        return False
-
-    request = urllib.request.Request(url, post_data)
-    request.add_header("Accept-Language", "en-US")
-    request.add_header("User-Agent", USER_AGENT)
-    for header, value in headers.items():
-        request.add_header(header, value)
-    request.method = method
-
-    try:
-        response = urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=5)
-    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
-        traceback.print_exc()
-        if return_code:
-            return e.code, False
-        return False
-    except urllib.error.URLError as e:
-        traceback.print_exc()
-        if kwargs.get("code"):
-            return -1, False
-        return False
-    except ssl.CertificateError as e:
-        traceback.print_exc()
-        if return_code:
-            return -1, False,
-        return False
-
-    response_content = response.read()
-    encoding = response.info().get_content_charset()
-    if kwargs.get("soup"):
-        soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(response_content, kwargs.get("parser",
-            "lxml"))
-        if return_code:
+    if soup:
+        soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(response.text, parser)
+        if code:
             return response.code, soup
         return soup
 
-    if not encoding:
-        soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(response_content, kwargs.get("parser", "lxml"))
-        metas = soup.find_all("meta")
-        for meta in metas:
-            if "charset=" in meta.get("content", ""):
-                encoding = meta.get("content").split("charset=", 1)[1
-                    ].split(";", 1)[0]
-            elif meta.get("charset", ""):
-                encoding = meta.get("charset")
-            else:
-                continue
-            break
-        if not encoding:
-            for item in soup.contents:
-                if isinstance(item, bs4.Doctype):
-                    if item == "html":
-                        encoding = "utf8"
-                    else:
-                        encoding = "latin-1"
-                    break
-    response_content = response_content.decode(encoding or "utf8")
-    data = response_content
-    if kwargs.get("json") and data:
+    data = response.text
+    if json and data:
         try:
-            data = json.loads(response_content)
-        except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
+            data = _json.loads(data)
+        except _json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
             traceback.print_exc()
+            if code:
+                return 0, False
             return False
-    if kwargs.get("code"):
-        return response.code, data
+
+    if code:
+        return response.status_code, data
     else:
         return data