def METHOD_NAME(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose=0):
    """Replace the xmlrpc request function.
    Process xmlrpc request via requests library.
    Args:
        host: Target host
        handler: Target PRC handler.
        request_body: XML-RPC request body.
        verbose: Debugging flag.
    Returns:
        Parsed response.
    Raises:
        RequestException: Error in requests
    """
    if verbose:
        self._debug()
    if not self._check_ssl_cert:
        disable_warnings()
    headers = {'User-Agent': self.user_agent, 'Content-Type': 'text/xml', }
    # Need to be done because the schema(http or https) is lost in
    # xmlrpc.Transport's init.
    if self._use_https:
        url = "https://{host}{handler}".format(host=host, handler=handler)
    else:
        url = "http://{host}{handler}".format(host=host, handler=handler)
    # TODO Construct kwargs query instead
    try:
        if self._authtype == "basic":
            response = requests.post(
                url,
                data=request_body,
                headers=headers,
                verify=self._check_ssl_cert,
                auth=HTTPBasicAuth(
                    self._username, self._password),
                proxies=self._proxies)
        elif self._authtype == "digest":
            response = requests.post(
                url,
                data=request_body,
                headers=headers,
                verify=self._check_ssl_cert,
                auth=HTTPDigestAuth(
                    self._username, self._password),
                proxies=self._proxies)
        else:
            response = requests.post(
                url,
                data=request_body,
                headers=headers,
                verify=self._check_ssl_cert,
                proxies=self._proxies)
        response.raise_for_status()
    except RequestException as error:
        raise xmlrpc_client.ProtocolError(url,
                                          response.status_code,
                                          traceback.format_exc(),
                                          response.headers)
    return self.parse_response(response)