diff --git a/deps/verifier/Cargo.toml b/deps/verifier/Cargo.toml
index bbb236b6a..03a39490f 100644
--- a/deps/verifier/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deps/verifier/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ strum.workspace = true
 veraison-apiclient = { git = "https://github.com/chendave/rust-apiclient", branch = "token", optional = true }
 ear = { git = "https://github.com/veraison/rust-ear", rev = "43f7f480d09ea2ebc03137af8fbcd70fe3df3468", optional = true }
 x509-parser = { version = "0.14.0", optional = true }
-reqwest.workspace = true
+reqwest = { optional = true, workspace = true }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 shadow-rs.workspace = true