diff --git a/ietf/bin/iana-protocols-updates b/ietf/bin/iana-protocols-updates
index 055a80c43..c3a5f28de 100755
--- a/ietf/bin/iana-protocols-updates
+++ b/ietf/bin/iana-protocols-updates
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
 # This script requires that the proper virtual python environment has been
 # invoked before start
 
-import os
-import sys
 import datetime
+import os
+import requests
+import sys
 import syslog
 
 # boilerplate
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ import django
 django.setup()
 
 from django.conf import settings
-from ietf.sync.iana import fetch_protocol_page, parse_protocol_page, update_rfc_log_from_protocol_page
+from ietf.sync.iana import parse_protocol_page, update_rfc_log_from_protocol_page
 
 def chunks(l, n):
     """Split list l up in chunks of max size n."""
diff --git a/ietf/bin/rfc-editor-index-updates b/ietf/bin/rfc-editor-index-updates
index 987760696..fd2e48ee8 100755
--- a/ietf/bin/rfc-editor-index-updates
+++ b/ietf/bin/rfc-editor-index-updates
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ log("Updating document metadata from RFC index from %s" % settings.RFC_EDITOR_IN
 
 
 socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
-rfc_index_xml = requests.get(settings.RFC_EDITOR_INDEX_URL).text
+rfc_index_xml = requests.get(settings.RFC_EDITOR_INDEX_URL).raw
 index_data = ietf.sync.rfceditor.parse_index(rfc_index_xml)
 
 errata_data = requests.get(settings.RFC_EDITOR_ERRATA_JSON_URL).json()
diff --git a/ietf/bin/rfc-editor-queue-updates b/ietf/bin/rfc-editor-queue-updates
index 8d492967d..7224f329a 100755
--- a/ietf/bin/rfc-editor-queue-updates
+++ b/ietf/bin/rfc-editor-queue-updates
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 import os
+import requests
 import socket
 import sys
 
@@ -20,7 +21,8 @@ from ietf.utils.log import log
 log("Updating RFC Editor queue states from %s" % settings.RFC_EDITOR_QUEUE_URL)
 
 socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
-response = requests.get(settings.RFC_EDITOR_QUEUE_URL).text
+response = requests.get(settings.RFC_EDITOR_QUEUE_URL).raw
+debug.type('response')
 drafts, warnings = parse_queue(response)
 for w in warnings:
     log(u"Warning: %s" % w)