diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 82eb5deee..a5fd9a9ad 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # This file is automatically @generated by Cargo.
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
+version = 3
+
 [[package]]
 name = "Inflector"
 version = "0.11.4"
@@ -2435,17 +2437,21 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-tungstenite"
-version = "0.13.0"
+version = "0.14.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e1a5f475f1b9d077ea1017ecbc60890fda8e54942d680ca0b1d2b47cfa2d861b"
+checksum = "1e96bb520beab540ab664bd5a9cfeaa1fcd846fa68c830b42e2c8963071251d2"
 dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
  "log",
  "native-tls",
  "pin-project",
+ "rustls",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-native-tls",
+ "tokio-rustls",
  "tungstenite",
+ "webpki",
+ "webpki-roots",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2506,9 +2512,9 @@ checksum = "59547bce71d9c38b83d9c0e92b6066c4253371f15005def0c30d9657f50c7642"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tungstenite"
-version = "0.12.0"
+version = "0.13.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8ada8297e8d70872fa9a551d93250a9f407beb9f37ef86494eb20012a2ff7c24"
+checksum = "5fe8dada8c1a3aeca77d6b51a4f1314e0f4b8e438b7b1b71e3ddaca8080e4093"
 dependencies = [
  "base64 0.13.0",
  "byteorder",
@@ -2519,9 +2525,13 @@ dependencies = [
  "log",
  "native-tls",
  "rand 0.8.3",
+ "rustls",
  "sha-1",
+ "thiserror",
  "url",
  "utf-8",
+ "webpki",
+ "webpki-roots",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml b/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
index be5e95337..07f13669c 100644
--- a/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ethers-providers/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ ethers-core = { version = "0.2.2", path = "../ethers-core", default-features = f
 
 async-trait = { version = "0.1.50", default-features = false }
 hex = { version = "0.4.3", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
-reqwest = { version = "0.11.4", default-features = false, features = ["json", "rustls-tls"] }
+reqwest = { version = "0.11.4", default-features = false, features = ["json"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0.124", default-features = false, features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0.64", default-features = false }
 thiserror = { version = "1.0.26", default-features = false }
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ tracing-futures = { version = "0.2.5", default-features = false, features = ["st
 
 # tokio
 tokio = { version = "1.5", default-features = false, optional = true }
-tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.13.0", default-features = false, features = ["connect", "tls"], optional = true }
+tokio-tungstenite = { version = "0.14.0", default-features = false, features = ["connect"], optional = true }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.6.7", default-features = false, features = ["io"], optional = true }
 bytes = { version  = "1.0.1", default-features = false, optional = true }
 
@@ -48,7 +48,10 @@ tokio = { version = "1.5", default-features = false, features = ["rt", "macros"]
 tempfile = "3.2.0"
 
 [features]
-default = ["ws", "ipc"]
+default = ["ws", "ipc", "rustls"]
 celo = ["ethers-core/celo"]
 ws = ["tokio", "tokio-tungstenite"]
 ipc = ["tokio", "tokio/io-util", "tokio-util", "bytes"]
+
+openssl = ["tokio-tungstenite/native-tls", "reqwest/native-tls"]
+rustls = ["tokio-tungstenite/rustls-tls", "reqwest/rustls-tls"]