diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 595e790e..3decd149 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1214,6 +1214,7 @@ Changelog
 *You can click a version name to see a diff with the previous one.*
 
 * `0.8.0-dev`_
+    * Update to Requests 2.0.0
 * `0.7.0`_ (2013-09-24)
     * Added ``--ignore-stdin``.
     * Added support for auth plugins.
diff --git a/httpie/models.py b/httpie/models.py
index 41c4d73a..8da93c1d 100644
--- a/httpie/models.py
+++ b/httpie/models.py
@@ -88,16 +88,7 @@ class HTTPMessage(object):
     @property
     def content_type(self):
         """Return the message content type."""
-        ct = self._orig.headers.get(
-            b'Content-Type',
-            self._orig.headers.get(
-                'Content-Type',
-                ''
-            )
-        )
-        if isinstance(ct, bytes):
-            ct = ct.decode()
-        return ct
+        return self._orig.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
 
 
 class HTTPResponse(HTTPMessage):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5ef67b4d..c94cc5d8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ if sys.argv[-1] == 'test':
 
 
 requirements = [
-    'requests>=1.2.3',
+    'requests>=2.0.0',
     'Pygments>=1.5'
 ]
 try:
diff --git a/tests/tests.py b/tests/tests.py
index a269641c..dc4c959f 100755
--- a/tests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/tests.py
@@ -809,8 +809,6 @@ class RequestBodyFromFilePathTest(BaseTestCase):
 
     """
     def test_request_body_from_file_by_path(self):
-        # FIXME: *sometimes* fails on py33, the content-type is form.
-        # https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/issues/140
         r = http(
             '--verbose',
             'POST',
@@ -822,8 +820,6 @@ class RequestBodyFromFilePathTest(BaseTestCase):
         self.assertIn('"Content-Type": "text/plain"', r)
 
     def test_request_body_from_file_by_path_with_explicit_content_type(self):
-        # FIXME: *sometimes* fails on py33, the content-type is form.
-        # https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/issues/140
         r = http(
             'POST',
             httpbin('/post'),