diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index b2dc683d114..48eed570a2d 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -37,3 +37,6 @@
 [submodule "src/rust-layers"]
 	path = src/rust-layers
 	url = git://github.com/pcwalton/rust-layers.git
+[submodule "src/rust-http-client"]
+	path = src/rust-http-client
+	url = git://github.com/brson/rust-http-client.git
diff --git a/src/rust-http-client b/src/rust-http-client
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..0fe29122c25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/rust-http-client
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 0fe29122c25f5fd8b00270dc96821df774d43745