diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 54a2643c63e1d..404638207e01d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ accesskit = "0.17"
 smol = "2"
 smol-macros = "0.1"
 smol-hyper = "0.1"
-ureq = { version = "2.10", default-features = false, features = ["json"] }
+ureq = { version = "2.10", default-features = false, features = ["json", "tls"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")'.dev-dependencies]
 wasm-bindgen = { version = "0.2" }
diff --git a/crates/bevy_asset/Cargo.toml b/crates/bevy_asset/Cargo.toml
index 84668147f6bb4..1e57abe9e3cad 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_asset/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/bevy_asset/Cargo.toml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ notify-debouncer-full = { version = "0.4.0", optional = true }
 ureq = { version = "2.10", optional = true, default-features = false, features = [
   "brotli",
   "gzip",
-  "tls",
+  # we should add tls feature when ring gets a cleaner license https://github.com/briansmith/ring/issues/1827
 ] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/crates/bevy_asset/src/http_source.rs b/crates/bevy_asset/src/http_source.rs
index 4c08309a1c5c6..654a9b2cedd9e 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_asset/src/http_source.rs
+++ b/crates/bevy_asset/src/http_source.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 /// Adds the `http` and `https` asset sources to the app.
 /// Any asset path that begins with `http` or `https` will be loaded from the web
 /// via `fetch`(wasm) or `ureq`(native).
+/// Note that the use of secure `https` sources in non-wasm builds requires the following dependency:
+/// ```toml
+/// ureq = { version = "*", features = ["tls"] }
+/// ```
 pub fn http_source_plugin(app: &mut App) {
     app.register_asset_source(
         "http",
diff --git a/examples/asset/http_source.rs b/examples/asset/http_source.rs
index 27ee70099b449..5ff9c0d32aff7 100644
--- a/examples/asset/http_source.rs
+++ b/examples/asset/http_source.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 //! Example usage of the `http` asset source to load assets from the web.
+/// Note that the use of secure `https` sources in non-wasm builds requires the following dependency:
+//! ```toml
+//! ureq = { version = "*", features = ["tls"] }
+//! ```
 use bevy::prelude::*;
 
 fn main() {