diff --git a/CMakeExternals/ExternalProjectList.cmake b/CMakeExternals/ExternalProjectList.cmake
index 87e25a67e0..02f6fe2280 100644
--- a/CMakeExternals/ExternalProjectList.cmake
+++ b/CMakeExternals/ExternalProjectList.cmake
@@ -1,33 +1,33 @@
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME Poco ON COMPONENTS Foundation Net Util XML Zip)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME DCMTK ON DOC "EXPERIMENTAL, superbuild only: Use DCMTK in MITK")
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME OpenIGTLink OFF)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME tinyxml2 ON ADVANCED)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME GDCM ON ADVANCED)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME Eigen ON ADVANCED DOC "Use the Eigen library")
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME ANN ON ADVANCED DOC "Use Approximate Nearest Neighbor Library")
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME CppUnit ON ADVANCED DOC "Use CppUnit for unit tests")
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME HDF5 ON ADVANCED)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME OpenCV OFF)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME ITK ON NO_CACHE DEPENDS HDF5)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME VTK ON NO_CACHE)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME Boost ON NO_CACHE)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME ZLIB OFF ADVANCED)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME lz4 ON ADVANCED)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME cpprestsdk OFF DEPENDS Boost ZLIB ADVANCED)
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME ACVD OFF DOC "Use Approximated Centroidal Voronoi Diagrams")
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME CTK ON DEPENDS Qt5 DCMTK DOC "Use CTK in MITK")
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME DCMQI ON DEPENDS DCMTK ITK DOC "Use dcmqi in MITK")
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME MatchPoint OFF ADVANCED DEPENDS Boost ITK DOC "Use the MatchPoint translation image registration library")
 mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME nlohmann_json ON ADVANCED)
-mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME httplib OFF DEPENDS ZLIB)
+mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME httplib ON DEPENDS ZLIB)
 
 if(MITK_USE_Qt5)
  mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME Qwt ON ADVANCED DEPENDS Qt5)
 endif()
 
 if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
   mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME PCRE OFF ADVANCED NO_PACKAGE)
   mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME SWIG OFF ADVANCED NO_PACKAGE DEPENDS PCRE)
 elseif(WIN32)
   mitkFunctionAddExternalProject(NAME SWIG OFF ADVANCED NO_PACKAGE)
 endif()