use urllib instead (ugh!)

snseventd.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import re
 import numbers
 import json
 import boto3
-import requests
+import urllib.request
 from botocore.exceptions import ProfileNotFound, NoCredentialsError
 from botocore.config import Config
 
@@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ args = parser.parse_args()
 ret = 1		# init as a failure code
 logFile = False
 Session = {}
-Session['ec2id'] = requests.get('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id').text
 
 Config = {}
 Config['debug'] = False
@@ -291,6 +290,16 @@ else:
 	printLog("Monitoring SNS topic '"+Config['topic']+"'", loglevels.INFO)
 
 
+# Get the EC2 instance ID for this node
+printLog("Retrieving EC2 instance ID", loglevels.INFO)
+try:
+	instid = urllib.request.urlopen("http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id")
+	Session['ec2id'] = instid.read()
+except Exception as e:
+	printLog(e)
+	cleanup()
+	sys.exit(ret)
+
 # Create a generic Boto3 session using the profile
 printLog("Generating Boto3 session", loglevels.INFO)
 try: