diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 5dff2adb..2f773b1c 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.7.0 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.7.1 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aiohttp"
@@ -145,6 +145,28 @@ typing-extensions = {version = ">=4.0.1", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 dev = ["anywidget", "geopandas", "hatch", "ipython", "m2r", "mypy", "pandas-stubs", "pyarrow (>=11)", "pytest", "pytest-cov", "ruff (>=0.1.3)", "types-jsonschema", "types-setuptools", "vega-datasets", "vegafusion[embed] (>=1.4.0)", "vl-convert-python (>=1.1.0)"]
 doc = ["docutils", "jinja2", "myst-parser", "numpydoc", "pillow (>=9,<10)", "pydata-sphinx-theme (>=0.14.1)", "scipy", "sphinx", "sphinx-copybutton", "sphinx-design", "sphinxext-altair"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "anyio"
+version = "4.2.0"
+description = "High level compatibility layer for multiple asynchronous event loop implementations"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "anyio-4.2.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:745843b39e829e108e518c489b31dc757de7d2131d53fac32bd8df268227bfee"},
+    {file = "anyio-4.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e1875bb4b4e2de1669f4bc7869b6d3f54231cdced71605e6e64c9be77e3be50f"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+exceptiongroup = {version = ">=1.0.2", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
+idna = ">=2.8"
+sniffio = ">=1.1"
+typing-extensions = {version = ">=4.1", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
+
+[package.extras]
+doc = ["Sphinx (>=7)", "packaging", "sphinx-autodoc-typehints (>=1.2.0)", "sphinx-rtd-theme"]
+test = ["anyio[trio]", "coverage[toml] (>=7)", "exceptiongroup (>=1.2.0)", "hypothesis (>=4.0)", "psutil (>=5.9)", "pytest (>=7.0)", "pytest-mock (>=3.6.1)", "trustme", "uvloop (>=0.17)"]
+trio = ["trio (>=0.23)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "appdirs"
 version = "1.4.4"
@@ -1507,6 +1529,62 @@ files = [
 docs = ["Sphinx", "furo"]
 test = ["objgraph", "psutil"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "h11"
+version = "0.14.0"
+description = "A pure-Python, bring-your-own-I/O implementation of HTTP/1.1"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "h11-0.14.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:e3fe4ac4b851c468cc8363d500db52c2ead036020723024a109d37346efaa761"},
+    {file = "h11-0.14.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8f19fbbe99e72420ff35c00b27a34cb9937e902a8b810e2c88300c6f0a3b699d"},
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "httpcore"
+version = "1.0.2"
+description = "A minimal low-level HTTP client."
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "httpcore-1.0.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:096cc05bca73b8e459a1fc3dcf585148f63e534eae4339559c9b8a8d6399acc7"},
+    {file = "httpcore-1.0.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9fc092e4799b26174648e54b74ed5f683132a464e95643b226e00c2ed2fa6535"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+certifi = "*"
+h11 = ">=0.13,<0.15"
+
+[package.extras]
+asyncio = ["anyio (>=4.0,<5.0)"]
+http2 = ["h2 (>=3,<5)"]
+socks = ["socksio (==1.*)"]
+trio = ["trio (>=0.22.0,<0.23.0)"]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "httpx"
+version = "0.26.0"
+description = "The next generation HTTP client."
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.8"
+files = [
+    {file = "httpx-0.26.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:8915f5a3627c4d47b73e8202457cb28f1266982d1159bd5779d86a80c0eab1cd"},
+    {file = "httpx-0.26.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:451b55c30d5185ea6b23c2c793abf9bb237d2a7dfb901ced6ff69ad37ec1dfaf"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+anyio = "*"
+certifi = "*"
+httpcore = "==1.*"
+idna = "*"
+sniffio = "*"
+
+[package.extras]
+brotli = ["brotli", "brotlicffi"]
+cli = ["click (==8.*)", "pygments (==2.*)", "rich (>=10,<14)"]
+http2 = ["h2 (>=3,<5)"]
+socks = ["socksio (==1.*)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "humanfriendly"
 version = "10.0"
@@ -2843,8 +2921,8 @@ files = [
 [package.dependencies]
 numpy = [
     {version = ">=1.20.3", markers = "python_version < \"3.10\""},
-    {version = ">=1.21.0", markers = "python_version >= \"3.10\" and python_version < \"3.11\""},
     {version = ">=1.23.2", markers = "python_version >= \"3.11\""},
+    {version = ">=1.21.0", markers = "python_version >= \"3.10\" and python_version < \"3.11\""},
 ]
 python-dateutil = ">=2.8.2"
 pytz = ">=2020.1"
@@ -4243,6 +4321,17 @@ files = [
     {file = "six-1.16.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:1e61c37477a1626458e36f7b1d82aa5c9b094fa4802892072e49de9c60c4c926"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sniffio"
+version = "1.3.0"
+description = "Sniff out which async library your code is running under"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "sniffio-1.3.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:eecefdce1e5bbfb7ad2eeaabf7c1eeb404d7757c379bd1f7e5cce9d8bf425384"},
+    {file = "sniffio-1.3.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e60305c5e5d314f5389259b7f22aaa33d8f7dee49763119234af3755c55b9101"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "snowballstemmer"
 version = "2.2.0"
@@ -5158,4 +5247,4 @@ web = ["Flask", "Flask-Cors", "pyb2b", "textual", "waitress"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.8,<4.0"
-content-hash = "d1784dee978179bbbbb8ab7edd346a7c41d3f73606971b4a2b2f0100d30e084f"
+content-hash = "34f8bffb689e783aac4eacfe468611ee30393d3639d00c97e4a4881001236c3f"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2762434c..5558abe1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ cartes = ">=0.7.4"
 # cartes = { path = "../cartes", develop = true }
 pyopensky = ">=2.0"
 # pyopensky = { path = "../pyopensky", develop = true }
-requests = ">=2.27"
+httpx = "^0.26.0"
+requests = ">=2.27"  # TODO when we remove requests, remove the types- too
 ipywidgets = ">=7.6"
 ipyleaflet = ">=0.17"
 pyModeS = ">=2.17"