diff --git a/common/http-api-client/Cargo.toml b/common/http-api-client/Cargo.toml
index 66c0f94695..e542474516 100644
--- a/common/http-api-client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/common/http-api-client/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ license.workspace = true
 default=["tunneling"]
 tunneling=[]
 network-defaults = ["dep:nym-network-defaults"]
+force-ipv4 = []
 
 [dependencies]
 async-trait = { workspace = true }
@@ -50,3 +51,4 @@ features = ["tokio"]
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt", "macros"] }
 
+
diff --git a/common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs b/common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs
index 883c7e7b3f..9d54099173 100644
--- a/common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs
+++ b/common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs
@@ -512,9 +512,11 @@ impl ClientBuilder {
                 .deflate(true)
                 .brotli(true)
                 .zstd(true)
-                .local_address(IpAddr::from_str("0.0.0.0").unwrap())
         };
 
+        #[cfg(feature = "force-ipv4")]
+        let reqwest_client_builder = reqwest_client_builder.local_address(IpAddr::from_str("0.0.0.0").unwrap());
+
         ClientBuilder {
             urls,
             timeout: None,