diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index d03c9dea..318bfd6b 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
 * Fix saving root dirs
 * Change pushbullet from urllib2 to requests
 * Change to make pushbullet error messages clearer
+* Change pyNMA use of urllib to requests (ref:hacks.txt)
 
 [develop changelog]
 * Update Requests library 2.7.0 (ab1f493) to 2.7.0 (8b5e457)
diff --git a/HACKS.txt b/HACKS.txt
index 3e2e9fe6..5aea55dc 100644
--- a/HACKS.txt
+++ b/HACKS.txt
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ Libs with customisations...
 /lib/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py
 /lib/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py
 /lib/cachecontrol/caches/file_cache.py
+/lib/pynma/pynma.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/pynma/pynma.py b/lib/pynma/pynma.py
index a8675827..e735eddd 100644
--- a/lib/pynma/pynma.py
+++ b/lib/pynma/pynma.py
@@ -3,15 +3,7 @@
 from . import __version__
 from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
 
-try:
-    from http.client import HTTPSConnection
-except ImportError:
-    from httplib import HTTPSConnection
-
-try:
-    from urllib.parse import urlencode
-except ImportError:
-    from urllib import urlencode
+import requests
 
 
 class PyNMA(object):
@@ -126,12 +118,9 @@ class PyNMA(object):
         if 'POST' == method:
             headers['Content-type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
 
-        http_handler = HTTPSConnection(self.api_server)
-        http_handler.request(method, path, urlencode(args), headers)
-        resp = http_handler.getresponse()
-
         try:
-            res = self._parse_response(resp.read())
+            resp = requests.post('%s:443%s' % (self.api_server, path), data=args, headers=headers).text
+            res = self._parse_response(resp)
         except Exception as e:
             res = {'type': 'pynmaerror',
                    'code': 600,