diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index beced13..606e392 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ bunch >=1.0.0
 # 0.14 switches to libev, that means bootstrap needs to change too
 gevent >=1.0
 isodate >=0.4.4
-requests ==0.14.0
+requests >=0.14.0
 pytz >=2011k
 ordereddict
 httplib2
diff --git a/s3tests/functional/test_s3.py b/s3tests/functional/test_s3.py
index 5044b09..a3bec75 100644
--- a/s3tests/functional/test_s3.py
+++ b/s3tests/functional/test_s3.py
@@ -5871,8 +5871,8 @@ def _cors_request_and_check(func, url, headers, expect_status, expect_allow_orig
     r = func(url, headers=headers)
     eq(r.status_code, expect_status)
 
-    assert r.headers['access-control-allow-origin'] == expect_allow_origin
-    assert r.headers['access-control-allow-methods'] == expect_allow_methods
+    assert r.headers.get('access-control-allow-origin', None) == expect_allow_origin
+    assert r.headers.get('access-control-allow-methods', None) == expect_allow_methods