diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8aa647b..8cf599c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "fs4",
  "hex",
  "is_executable",
+ "native-tls",
  "siphasher",
  "tar",
  "tempfile",
@@ -153,6 +154,22 @@ version = "0.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f7144d30dcf0fafbce74250a3963025d8d52177934239851c917d29f1df280c2"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "core-foundation"
+version = "0.9.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "91e195e091a93c46f7102ec7818a2aa394e1e1771c3ab4825963fa03e45afb8f"
+dependencies = [
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "libc",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "core-foundation-sys"
+version = "0.8.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "06ea2b9bc92be3c2baa9334a323ebca2d6f074ff852cd1d7b11064035cd3868f"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cpufeatures"
 version = "0.2.12"
@@ -316,6 +333,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "miniz_oxide",
 ]
 
+[[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 = "1.2.1"
@@ -493,6 +525,23 @@ dependencies = [
  "adler",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "native-tls"
+version = "0.2.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a8614eb2c83d59d1c8cc974dd3f920198647674a0a035e1af1fa58707e317466"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "log",
+ "openssl",
+ "openssl-probe",
+ "openssl-sys",
+ "schannel",
+ "security-framework",
+ "security-framework-sys",
+ "tempfile",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num-conv"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -526,6 +575,50 @@ version = "1.19.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3fdb12b2476b595f9358c5161aa467c2438859caa136dec86c26fdd2efe17b92"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "openssl"
+version = "0.10.64"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "95a0481286a310808298130d22dd1fef0fa571e05a8f44ec801801e84b216b1f"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.6.0",
+ "cfg-if",
+ "foreign-types",
+ "libc",
+ "once_cell",
+ "openssl-macros",
+ "openssl-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "openssl-macros"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a948666b637a0f465e8564c73e89d4dde00d72d4d473cc972f390fc3dcee7d9c"
+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 = "0.9.102"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c597637d56fbc83893a35eb0dd04b2b8e7a50c91e64e9493e398b5df4fb45fa2"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
+ "vcpkg",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pbkdf2"
 version = "0.12.2"
@@ -660,6 +753,38 @@ dependencies = [
  "untrusted",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "schannel"
+version = "0.1.23"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fbc91545643bcf3a0bbb6569265615222618bdf33ce4ffbbd13c4bbd4c093534"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "security-framework"
+version = "2.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c627723fd09706bacdb5cf41499e95098555af3c3c29d014dc3c458ef6be11c0"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.6.0",
+ "core-foundation",
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "libc",
+ "security-framework-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "security-framework-sys"
+version = "2.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "317936bbbd05227752583946b9e66d7ce3b489f84e11a94a510b4437fef407d7"
+dependencies = [
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "serde"
 version = "1.0.203"
@@ -862,6 +987,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "base64",
  "flate2",
  "log",
+ "native-tls",
  "once_cell",
  "rustls",
  "rustls-pki-types",
@@ -881,6 +1007,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[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 c505e81..30a8b1a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ readme = "./README.md"
 edition = "2018"
 
 [dependencies]
-anyhow = "1.0"
-ureq = "2.6"
+anyhow = "1.0" 
+ureq = { version = "2.6", features = ["native-tls"] }
 dirs-next = "2.0.0"
 flate2 = "1.0"
 fs4 = "0.6.6"
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ is_executable = "0.1"
 siphasher = "0.3"
 tar = "0.4"
 zip_next = "1.0"
+native-tls = "0.2.12"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tempfile = "3.1"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index f0cc2d0..09245a2 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ use std::fs::File;
 use std::hash::{Hash, Hasher};
 use std::io;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+use ureq::Response;
 
 /// Global cache for wasm-pack, currently containing binaries downloaded from
 /// urls like wasm-bindgen and such.
@@ -389,7 +391,18 @@ impl Download {
 }
 
 fn download_binary(url: &str) -> Result<Vec<u8>> {
-    let response = ureq::get(url).call()?;
+    let use_native_tls = env::var("USE_NATIVE_TLS").ok();
+    let response: Response;
+
+    if use_native_tls.as_deref() == Some("1") {
+        response = ureq::AgentBuilder::new()
+            .tls_connector(Arc::new(native_tls::TlsConnector::new()?))
+            .build()
+            .get(url)
+            .call()?;
+    } else {
+        response = ureq::get(url).call()?;
+    }
 
     let status_code = response.status();