import requests
import time

def http_request(method, url, **kwargs):
    start = time.time()

    response = requests.request(method, url, **kwargs)

    latency = time.time() - start

    try:
        data = response.json()
    except:
        data = response.text

    return {
        "status": response.status_code,
        "data": data,
        "latency": latency
    }