diff --git a/gnu/packages/crates-web.scm b/gnu/packages/crates-web.scm
index 337c14d217..986f62b012 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/crates-web.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/crates-web.scm
@@ -4571,6 +4571,101 @@ (define-public rust-poem-derive-1
     (description "This package provides macros for poem.")
     (license (list license:expat license:asl2.0))))
 
+(define-public rust-reqwest-0.12
+  (package
+    (name "rust-reqwest")
+    (version "0.12.4")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (crate-uri "reqwest" version))
+       (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
+       (sha256
+        (base32 "047aa0qnngnlnf9i0abrs6pgmz15vk81p5pvscwhk3l6jbfsyv2n"))))
+    (build-system cargo-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     `(#:cargo-test-flags
+       '("--release" "--"
+         ;; These tests go to the network
+         "--skip=test_badssl_modern"
+         "--skip=test_badssl_self_signed"
+         "--skip=connect_timeout"
+         "--skip=test_allowed_methods"
+         "--skip=test_tls_info"
+         "--skip=connect_many_timeout")
+       #:cargo-inputs (("rust-async-compression" ,rust-async-compression-0.4)
+                       ("rust-base64" ,rust-base64-0.22)
+                       ("rust-bytes" ,rust-bytes-1)
+                       ("rust-cookie" ,rust-cookie-0.17)
+                       ("rust-cookie-store" ,rust-cookie-store-0.20)
+                       ("rust-encoding-rs" ,rust-encoding-rs-0.8)
+                       ("rust-futures-channel" ,rust-futures-channel-0.3)
+                       ("rust-futures-core" ,rust-futures-core-0.3)
+                       ("rust-futures-util" ,rust-futures-util-0.3)
+                       ("rust-h2" ,rust-h2-0.4)
+                       ("rust-h3" ,rust-h3-0.0.4)
+                       ("rust-h3-quinn" ,rust-h3-quinn-0.0.5)
+                       ("rust-hickory-resolver" ,rust-hickory-resolver-0.24)
+                       ("rust-http" ,rust-http-1)
+                       ("rust-http-body" ,rust-http-body-1)
+                       ("rust-http-body-util" ,rust-http-body-util-0.1)
+                       ("rust-hyper" ,rust-hyper-1)
+                       ("rust-hyper-rustls" ,rust-hyper-rustls-0.26)
+                       ("rust-hyper-tls" ,rust-hyper-tls-0.6)
+                       ("rust-hyper-util" ,rust-hyper-util-0.1)
+                       ("rust-ipnet" ,rust-ipnet-2)
+                       ("rust-js-sys" ,rust-js-sys-0.3)
+                       ("rust-log" ,rust-log-0.4)
+                       ("rust-mime" ,rust-mime-0.3)
+                       ("rust-mime-guess" ,rust-mime-guess-2)
+                       ("rust-native-tls" ,rust-native-tls-0.2)
+                       ("rust-once-cell" ,rust-once-cell-1)
+                       ("rust-percent-encoding" ,rust-percent-encoding-2)
+                       ("rust-pin-project-lite" ,rust-pin-project-lite-0.2)
+                       ("rust-quinn" ,rust-quinn-0.10)
+                       ("rust-rustls" ,rust-rustls-0.22)
+                       ("rust-rustls-native-certs" ,rust-rustls-native-certs-0.7)
+                       ("rust-rustls-pemfile" ,rust-rustls-pemfile-2)
+                       ("rust-rustls-pki-types" ,rust-rustls-pki-types-1)
+                       ("rust-serde" ,rust-serde-1)
+                       ("rust-serde-json" ,rust-serde-json-1)
+                       ("rust-serde-urlencoded" ,rust-serde-urlencoded-0.7)
+                       ("rust-sync-wrapper" ,rust-sync-wrapper-0.1)
+                       ("rust-system-configuration" ,rust-system-configuration-0.5)
+                       ("rust-tokio" ,rust-tokio-1)
+                       ("rust-tokio-native-tls" ,rust-tokio-native-tls-0.3)
+                       ("rust-tokio-rustls" ,rust-tokio-rustls-0.25)
+                       ("rust-tokio-socks" ,rust-tokio-socks-0.5)
+                       ("rust-tokio-util" ,rust-tokio-util-0.7)
+                       ("rust-tower-service" ,rust-tower-service-0.3)
+                       ("rust-url" ,rust-url-2)
+                       ("rust-wasm-bindgen" ,rust-wasm-bindgen-0.2)
+                       ("rust-wasm-bindgen-futures" ,rust-wasm-bindgen-futures-0.4)
+                       ("rust-wasm-streams" ,rust-wasm-streams-0.4)
+                       ("rust-web-sys" ,rust-web-sys-0.3)
+                       ("rust-webpki-roots" ,rust-webpki-roots-0.26)
+                       ("rust-winreg" ,rust-winreg-0.52))
+       #:cargo-development-inputs (("rust-brotli" ,rust-brotli-3)
+                                   ("rust-doc-comment" ,rust-doc-comment-0.3)
+                                   ("rust-env-logger" ,rust-env-logger-0.10)
+                                   ("rust-futures-util" ,rust-futures-util-0.3)
+                                   ("rust-hyper" ,rust-hyper-1)
+                                   ("rust-hyper-util" ,rust-hyper-util-0.1)
+                                   ("rust-libflate" ,rust-libflate-1)
+                                   ("rust-serde" ,rust-serde-1)
+                                   ("rust-tokio" ,rust-tokio-1)
+                                   ("rust-wasm-bindgen" ,rust-wasm-bindgen-0.2)
+                                   ("rust-wasm-bindgen-test" ,rust-wasm-bindgen-test-0.3)
+                                   ("rust-zstd" ,rust-zstd-0.13))))
+    (inputs
+     (list openssl))
+    (native-inputs
+     (list pkg-config (list zstd "lib")))
+    (home-page "https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest")
+    (synopsis "High level HTTP client library")
+    (description "This package provides a high level HTTP client library.")
+    (license (list license:expat license:asl2.0))))
+
 (define-public rust-reqwest-0.11
   (package
     (name "rust-reqwest")
