diff --git a/pkg.info b/pkg.info
index 4beac55..04b9306 100644
--- a/pkg.info
+++ b/pkg.info
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name: python-requests
 description: HTTP for Humans
 version: 2.32.5
-revision: 1
+revision: 2
 url: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
 license: Apache-2.0
 architecture: any
diff --git a/source-files/certs.patch b/source-files/certs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b4ebc37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source-files/certs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff --git a/src/requests/certs.py b/src/requests/certs.py
+index be422c3e..9bfe1c80 100644
+--- a/src/requests/certs.py
++++ b/src/requests/certs.py
+@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ If you are packaging Requests, e.g., for a Linux distribution or a managed
+ environment, you can change the definition of where() to return a separately
+ packaged CA bundle.
+ """
+-from certifi import where
++def where():
++    return "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"
+ 
+ if __name__ == "__main__":
+     print(where())
diff --git a/source.sh b/source.sh
index d70e551..5ea65ef 100644
--- a/source.sh
+++ b/source.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 # BPM Expects the source code to be extracted into the automatically created 'source' directory which can be accessed using $BPM_SOURCE
 # BPM Expects the output files to be present in the automatically created 'output' directory which can be accessed using $BPM_OUTPUT
 
+prepare() {
+  cd "$BPM_SOURCE"
+  # Use system certificates
+  sed -i '/certifi/d' setup.py
+  patch -p1 -i "$BPM_WORKDIR"/certs.patch
+}
+
 # The build function is executed in the source directory
 # This function is used to compile the source code
 build() {