diff --git a/plugins/inventory/foreman.py b/plugins/inventory/foreman.py
index b64b4cd19d..26ecf8efa6 100644
--- a/plugins/inventory/foreman.py
+++ b/plugins/inventory/foreman.py
@@ -173,19 +173,14 @@
 from ansible_collections.theforeman.foreman.plugins.module_utils._version import LooseVersion
 from time import sleep
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.common._collections_compat import MutableMapping
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable, to_safe_group_name, Constructable
 
-# 3rd party imports
 try:
-    import requests
-    if LooseVersion(requests.__version__) < LooseVersion('1.1.0'):
-        raise ImportError
-    from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
-    HAS_REQUESTS = True
+    from ansible_collections.theforeman.foreman.plugins.module_utils.ansible_requests import RequestSession
 except ImportError:
-    HAS_REQUESTS = False
+    from plugins.module_utils.ansible_requests import RequestSession
 
 
 class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Cacheable, Constructable):
@@ -204,9 +199,6 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.cache_key = None
         self.use_cache = None
 
-        if not HAS_REQUESTS:
-            raise AnsibleError('This script requires python-requests 1.1 as a minimum version')
-
     def verify_file(self, path):
 
         valid = False
@@ -219,8 +211,8 @@ def verify_file(self, path):
 
     def _get_session(self):
         if not self.session:
-            self.session = requests.session()
-            self.session.auth = HTTPBasicAuth(self.get_option('user'), to_bytes(self.get_option('password')))
+            self.session = RequestSession()
+            self.session.auth = (self.get_option('user'), self.get_option('password'))
             self.session.verify = self.get_option('validate_certs')
         return self.session
 
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/ansible_requests.py b/plugins/module_utils/ansible_requests.py
index d03705897a..8f183709cd 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/ansible_requests.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/ansible_requests.py
@@ -115,5 +115,8 @@ def request(self, method, url, **kwargs):
         result = self.open(method, url, validate_certs=validate_certs, data=data, headers=headers, **kwargs)
         return RequestResponse(result)
 
+    def get(self, url, **kwargs):
+        return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
+
     def post(self, url, data=None, json=None, **kwargs):
         return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)