diff --git a/recipes-devtools/python/files/requests/0001-close-connection-on-HTTP-413-Request-Entit.patch b/recipes-devtools/python/files/requests/0001-close-connection-on-HTTP-413-Request-Entit.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5779d4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-devtools/python/files/requests/0001-close-connection-on-HTTP-413-Request-Entit.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+From 268a1f179e554027637bd2951b24ad44ecb4a1ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Daniel Badea <daniel.badea@windriver.com>
+Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 09:10:10 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] close connection on HTTP 413 Request Entity Too
+ Large
+
+Allow low_conn to retrieve/handle unread response data buffers
+in case ProtocolError or socket.error are raised while sending
+request data.
+---
+ requests/adapters.py | 18 ++++++++++++------
+ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/requests/adapters.py b/requests/adapters.py
+index fd46325..087258a 100644
+--- a/requests/adapters.py
++++ b/requests/adapters.py
+@@ -466,12 +466,18 @@ class HTTPAdapter(BaseAdapter):
+
+                     low_conn.endheaders()
+
+-                    for i in request.body:
+-                        low_conn.send(hex(len(i))[2:].encode('utf-8'))
+-                        low_conn.send(b'\r\n')
+-                        low_conn.send(i)
+-                        low_conn.send(b'\r\n')
+-                    low_conn.send(b'0\r\n\r\n')
++                    try:
++                        for i in request.body:
++                            low_conn.send(hex(len(i))[2:].encode('utf-8'))
++                            low_conn.send(b'\r\n')
++                            low_conn.send(i)
++                            low_conn.send(b'\r\n')
++                        low_conn.send(b'0\r\n\r\n')
++                    except (ProtocolError, socket.error) as err:
++                        # allow low_conn to retrieve/handle unread response
++                        # data buffers in case ProtocolError or socket.error
++                        # are raised while sending request data
++                        pass
+
+                     # Receive the response from the server
+                     try:
+-- 
+1.8.3.1
+
diff --git a/recipes-devtools/python/python-requests_%.bbappend b/recipes-devtools/python/python-requests_%.bbappend
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0497906
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-devtools/python/python-requests_%.bbappend
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
+
+SRC_URI += " file://requests/0001-close-connection-on-HTTP-413-Request-Entit.patch"