1diff --git a/linkcheck/__init__.py b/linkcheck/__init__.py
2--- a/linkcheck/__init__.py 2014-07-16 13:34:58.000000000 +0800
3+++ b/linkcheck/__init__.py 2016-10-11 10:42:08.914085950 +0800
4@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
5 sys.version_info < (2, 7, 2, 'final', 0)):
6 raise SystemExit("This program requires Python 2.7.2 or later.")
7 import requests
8-if requests.__version__ <= '2.2.0':
9- raise SystemExit("This program requires Python requests 2.2.0 or later.")
10+#if requests.__version__ <= '2.2.0':
11+# raise SystemExit("This program requires Python requests 2.2.0 or later.")
12
13 import os
14 # add the custom linkcheck_dns directory to sys.path