diff --git a/pkgs/applications/gis/grass/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/gis/grass/default.nix
index 41d560a4ebd5..f221b8e4e8c4 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/gis/grass/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/gis/grass/default.nix
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     libmysqlclient
     libpng
     libtiff
-    libxml2
+    (libxml2.override { enableHttp = true; })
     netcdf
     pdal
     postgresql