There was a typo in AUTHORS link - it pointed to develop branch which no longer exists.
#. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS_.
.. _`the repository`: http://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
-.. _AUTHORS: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/develop/AUTHORS.rst
+.. _AUTHORS: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst