diff --git a/scripts/system/makeUserConnection.js b/scripts/system/makeUserConnection.js
index 4426ce5c24..beee766d5c 100644
--- a/scripts/system/makeUserConnection.js
+++ b/scripts/system/makeUserConnection.js
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
 
 (function() { // BEGIN LOCAL_SCOPE
 
-    var request = Script.require('../modules/request.js').request;
+    var REQUEST_URL = Script.resolvePath('request.js');
+    var request = Script.require(REQUEST_URL).request;
 
     var LABEL = "makeUserConnection";
     var MAX_AVATAR_DISTANCE = 0.2; // m
diff --git a/scripts/system/pal.js b/scripts/system/pal.js
index ffde058cfc..d81946562b 100644
--- a/scripts/system/pal.js
+++ b/scripts/system/pal.js
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
 
 (function() { // BEGIN LOCAL_SCOPE
 
-    var request = Script.require('../modules/request.js').request;
+    var REQUEST_URL = Script.resolvePath('request.js');
+    var request = Script.require(REQUEST_URL).request;
 
 var populateNearbyUserList, color, textures, removeOverlays,
     controllerComputePickRay, onTabletButtonClicked, onTabletScreenChanged,
diff --git a/scripts/system/tablet-goto.js b/scripts/system/tablet-goto.js
index fec7a6de90..68706ffb68 100644
--- a/scripts/system/tablet-goto.js
+++ b/scripts/system/tablet-goto.js
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
 //
 
 (function () { // BEGIN LOCAL_SCOPE
+
+    var REQUEST_URL = Script.resolvePath('request.js');
+    var request = Script.require(REQUEST_URL).request;
+
     var gotoQmlSource = "TabletAddressDialog.qml";
     var buttonName = "GOTO";
     var onGotoScreen = false;
@@ -30,54 +34,7 @@
         text: buttonName,
         sortOrder: 8
     });
-    function request(options, callback) { // cb(error, responseOfCorrectContentType) of url. A subset of npm request.
-        var httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest(), key;
-        // QT bug: apparently doesn't handle onload. Workaround using readyState.
-        httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function () {
-            var READY_STATE_DONE = 4;
-            var HTTP_OK = 200;
-            if (httpRequest.readyState >= READY_STATE_DONE) {
-                var error = (httpRequest.status !== HTTP_OK) && httpRequest.status.toString() + ':' + httpRequest.statusText,
-                    response = !error && httpRequest.responseText,
-                    contentType = !error && httpRequest.getResponseHeader('content-type');
-                if (!error && contentType.indexOf('application/json') === 0) { // ignoring charset, etc.
-                    try {
-                        response = JSON.parse(response);
-                    } catch (e) {
-                        error = e;
-                    }
-                }
-                callback(error, response);
-            }
-        };
-        if (typeof options === 'string') {
-            options = {uri: options};
-        }
-        if (options.url) {
-            options.uri = options.url;
-        }
-        if (!options.method) {
-            options.method = 'GET';
-        }
-        if (options.body && (options.method === 'GET')) { // add query parameters
-            var params = [], appender = (-1 === options.uri.search('?')) ? '?' : '&';
-            for (key in options.body) {
-                params.push(key + '=' + options.body[key]);
-            }
-            options.uri += appender + params.join('&');
-            delete options.body;
-        }
-        if (options.json) {
-            options.headers = options.headers || {};
-            options.headers["Content-type"] = "application/json";
-            options.body = JSON.stringify(options.body);
-        }
-        for (key in options.headers || {}) {
-            httpRequest.setRequestHeader(key, options.headers[key]);
-        }
-        httpRequest.open(options.method, options.uri, true);
-        httpRequest.send(options.body);
-    }
+    
     function fromQml(message) {
         var response = {id: message.id, jsonrpc: "2.0"};
         switch (message.method) {
@@ -99,6 +56,7 @@
             // No need for a different activeIcon, because we issue messagesWaiting(false) when the button goes active anyway.
         });
     }
+
     var hasEventBridge = false;
     function wireEventBridge(on) {
         if (on) {