diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b4af36bfc1..85d8407309 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ This will error if 2 values are set
 - Enable locale date formatting for the Tera `date` filter
 - Cachebust fingerprint is now only 20 chars long
 - Add `text` alias for plain text highlighting (before, only `txt` was used)
-- Switch reqwest TLS backend to rustls-tls
 
 
 ## 0.16.1 (2022-08-14)
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c451478eea..889010b6c6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -490,6 +490,16 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6245d59a3e82a7fc217c5828a6692dbc6dfb63a0c8c90495621f7b9d79704a0e"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "core-foundation"
+version = "0.9.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "194a7a9e6de53fa55116934067c844d9d749312f75c6f6d0980e8c252f8c2146"
+dependencies = [
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "core-foundation-sys"
 version = "0.8.3"
@@ -937,6 +947,21 @@ version = "1.0.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3f9eec918d3f24069decb9af1554cad7c880e2da24a9afd88aca000531ab82c1"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "foreign-types"
+version = "0.3.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f6f339eb8adc052cd2ca78910fda869aefa38d22d5cb648e6485e4d3fc06f3b1"
+dependencies = [
+ "foreign-types-shared",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "foreign-types-shared"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "00b0228411908ca8685dba7fc2cdd70ec9990a6e753e89b6ac91a84c40fbaf4b"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "form_urlencoded"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -1328,6 +1353,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-rustls",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "hyper-tls"
+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d6183ddfa99b85da61a140bea0efc93fdf56ceaa041b37d553518030827f9905"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes 1.3.0",
+ "hyper",
+ "native-tls",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-native-tls",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "iana-time-zone"
 version = "0.1.53"
@@ -2117,6 +2155,24 @@ dependencies = [
  "getrandom 0.2.8",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "native-tls"
+version = "0.2.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "07226173c32f2926027b63cce4bcd8076c3552846cbe7925f3aaffeac0a3b92e"
+dependencies = [
+ "lazy_static",
+ "libc",
+ "log",
+ "openssl",
+ "openssl-probe",
+ "openssl-sys",
+ "schannel",
+ "security-framework",
+ "security-framework-sys",
+ "tempfile",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "net2"
 version = "0.2.38"
@@ -2344,6 +2400,51 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "openssl"
+version = "0.10.45"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b102428fd03bc5edf97f62620f7298614c45cedf287c271e7ed450bbaf83f2e1"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags",
+ "cfg-if 1.0.0",
+ "foreign-types",
+ "libc",
+ "once_cell",
+ "openssl-macros",
+ "openssl-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "openssl-macros"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b501e44f11665960c7e7fcf062c7d96a14ade4aa98116c004b2e37b5be7d736c"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "openssl-probe"
+version = "0.1.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ff011a302c396a5197692431fc1948019154afc178baf7d8e37367442a4601cf"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "openssl-sys"
+version = "0.9.80"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "23bbbf7854cd45b83958ebe919f0e8e516793727652e27fda10a8384cfc790b7"
+dependencies = [
+ "autocfg",
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
+ "vcpkg",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "os_str_bytes"
 version = "6.4.1"
@@ -2881,10 +2982,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "http-body",
  "hyper",
  "hyper-rustls",
+ "hyper-tls",
  "ipnet",
  "js-sys",
  "log",
  "mime",
+ "native-tls",
  "once_cell",
  "percent-encoding",
  "pin-project-lite",
@@ -2894,6 +2997,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "serde_urlencoded",
  "tokio",
+ "tokio-native-tls",
  "tokio-rustls",
  "tower-service",
  "url",
@@ -3009,6 +3113,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi-util",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "schannel"
+version = "0.1.21"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "713cfb06c7059f3588fb8044c0fad1d09e3c01d225e25b9220dbfdcf16dbb1b3"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "scoped_threadpool"
 version = "0.1.9"
@@ -3047,6 +3160,29 @@ dependencies = [
  "libs",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "security-framework"
+version = "2.7.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2bc1bb97804af6631813c55739f771071e0f2ed33ee20b68c86ec505d906356c"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags",
+ "core-foundation",
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "libc",
+ "security-framework-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "security-framework-sys"
+version = "2.6.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0160a13a177a45bfb43ce71c01580998474f556ad854dcbca936dd2841a5c556"
+dependencies = [
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "semver"
 version = "1.0.16"
@@ -3526,6 +3662,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-native-tls"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f7d995660bd2b7f8c1568414c1126076c13fbb725c40112dc0120b78eb9b717b"
+dependencies = [
+ "native-tls",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-rustls"
 version = "0.23.4"
@@ -3762,6 +3908,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "tempfile",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "vcpkg"
+version = "0.2.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "accd4ea62f7bb7a82fe23066fb0957d48ef677f6eeb8215f372f52e48bb32426"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "version_check"
 version = "0.9.4"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 3b5d79646c..0d94bd9523 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ libs = { path = "components/libs" }
 same-file = "1"
 
 [features]
+default = ["rust-tls"]
+rust-tls = ["libs/rust-tls"]
+native-tls = ["libs/native-tls"]
 indexing-zh = ["libs/indexing-zh"]
 indexing-ja = ["libs/indexing-ja"]
 
diff --git a/components/libs/Cargo.toml b/components/libs/Cargo.toml
index 3bdd3122a7..58c9b8f029 100644
--- a/components/libs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/components/libs/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ quickxml_to_serde = "0.5"
 rayon = "1"
 regex = "1"
 relative-path = "1"
-reqwest = { version = "0.11", default-features = false, features = ["blocking", "rustls-tls"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.11", default-features = false, features = ["blocking"] }
 grass = {version = "0.12.1", default-features = false, features = ["random"]}
 serde_json = "1"
 serde_yaml = "0.9"
@@ -46,5 +46,9 @@ webp = "0.2"
 
 
 [features]
+# TODO: fix me, it doesn't pick up the reqwuest feature if not set as default
+default = ["rust-tls"]
+rust-tls = ["reqwest/rustls-tls"]
+native-tls = ["reqwest/default-tls"]
 indexing-zh = ["elasticlunr-rs/zh"]
 indexing-ja = ["elasticlunr-rs/ja"]