consider switching from requests to pycurl (or one of the other alternatives)

[ensonic]

See details:
https://github.com/juancarlospaco/faster-than-requests

since pycurl has a verbose and interface, we might want to consider using it together with one of:
https://github.com/Lispython/human_curl
https://github.com/turnkeylinux/pycurl-wrapper/blob/master/pylib/pycurl_wrapper.py

and ev3dev has python3-pycurl (although none of the wrappers).