diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 22e92320..99f8da6c 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ websockets = ">=9.1,<10.0"
 name = "requests"
 version = "2.27.1"
 description = "Python HTTP for Humans."
-category = "dev"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*, !=3.5.*"
 
@@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ use_chardet_on_py3 = ["chardet (>=3.0.2,<5)"]
 name = "requests-toolbelt"
 version = "0.9.1"
 description = "A utility belt for advanced users of python-requests"
-category = "dev"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 
@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ python-versions = ">=3.6"
 name = "urllib3"
 version = "1.26.8"
 description = "HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more."
-category = "dev"
+category = "main"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*, <4"
 
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ testing = ["pytest (>=6)", "pytest-checkdocs (>=2.4)", "pytest-flake8", "pytest-
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.7"
-content-hash = "4afeceeaf06dbfe514f648451e8c7cb3ab9938b356606e425dfa82034b736d52"
+content-hash = "c0ff5410d14f26d403fcf2d48daf5ad26b914c382afccffade59c9c37091ab85"
 
 [metadata.files]
 anyio = [
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4d73e5bd..b70a8a26 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ postgrest-py = "0.7.0"
 realtime = "^0.0.4"
 gotrue = "^0.3.0"
 httpx = ">=0.19,<0.22"
+requests = "^2.27.1"
+requests-toolbelt = "^0.9.1"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 pre-commit = "^2.16.0"
diff --git a/supabase/lib/storage/storage_file_api.py b/supabase/lib/storage/storage_file_api.py
index 9c5d7c39..5af7f732 100644
--- a/supabase/lib/storage/storage_file_api.py
+++ b/supabase/lib/storage/storage_file_api.py
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 from typing import Any
 
 import httpx
+import requests
 from httpx import HTTPError
+from requests import HTTPError as RequestsHTTPError
+from requests_toolbelt import MultipartEncoder
 
 
 class StorageFileAPI:
@@ -71,8 +74,7 @@ def get_public_url(self, path: str):
         """
         try:
             _path = self._get_final_path(path)
-            public_url = f"{self.url}/object/public/{_path}"
-            return public_url
+            return f"{self.url}/object/public/{_path}"
         except:
             print("Public URL not found")
 
@@ -140,7 +142,7 @@ def list(self, path: str = None, options: dict = {}):
         try:
             body = dict(self.DEFAULT_SEARCH_OPTIONS, **options)
             headers = dict(self.headers, **{"Content-Type": "application/json"})
-            body["prefix"] = path if path else ""
+            body["prefix"] = path or ""
             getdata = httpx.post(
                 f"{self.url}/object/list/{self.bucket_id}",
                 json=body,
@@ -189,15 +191,18 @@ def upload(self, path: str, file: Any, file_options: dict = None):
         headers = dict(self.headers, **self.DEFAULT_FILE_OPTIONS)
         headers.update(file_options)
         filename = path.rsplit("/", maxsplit=1)[-1]
-        files = {"file": (filename, open(file, "rb"), headers["contentType"])}
+        files = MultipartEncoder(
+            fields={"file": (filename, open(file, "rb"), headers["contentType"])}
+        )
+        headers["Content-Type"] = files.content_type
         _path = self._get_final_path(path)
         try:
-            resp = httpx.post(
+            resp = requests.post(
                 f"{self.url}/object/{_path}",
-                files=files,
+                data=files,
                 headers=headers,
             )
-        except HTTPError as http_err:
+        except RequestsHTTPError as http_err:
             print(f"HTTP error occurred: {http_err}")  # Python 3.6
         except Exception as err:
             raise err  # Python 3.6