diff --git a/rust/strawcore/Cargo.toml b/rust/strawcore/Cargo.toml
index 630ef94ef..047f10f69 100644
--- a/rust/strawcore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/strawcore/Cargo.toml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ android_logger = { version = "0.14", default-features = false }
 # strawcore-core's already-pulled reqwest; quick-xml is small (~200KB);
 # futures for buffer_unordered. rustls-tls avoids the NDK openssl headers
 # headache.
-reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls", "gzip"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls", "gzip", "stream"] }
 quick-xml = "0.36"
 futures = "0.3"