diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e2795c4f..169e3188 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytestring",
  "cfg-if",
  "http 0.2.12",
- "regex",
  "regex-lite",
  "serde 1.0.218",
  "tracing",
@@ -166,7 +165,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "bytestring",
  "cfg-if",
- "cookie",
  "derive_more",
  "encoding_rs",
  "futures-core",
@@ -178,7 +176,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "mime",
  "once_cell",
  "pin-project-lite",
- "regex",
  "regex-lite",
  "serde 1.0.218",
  "serde_json",
@@ -638,17 +635,6 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6245d59a3e82a7fc217c5828a6692dbc6dfb63a0c8c90495621f7b9d79704a0e"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "cookie"
-version = "0.16.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e859cd57d0710d9e06c381b550c06e76992472a8c6d527aecd2fc673dcc231fb"
-dependencies = [
- "percent-encoding 2.3.1",
- "time",
- "version_check",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "core-foundation-sys"
 version = "0.8.7"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4d7a6557..cdc80454 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ rust-version = "1.86"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
-actix-web = "4"
+actix-web = { version = "4", default-features = false, features = ["compat", "http2", "macros"] }
 
 docopt = "1.1"
 base64 = "0.22"
diff --git a/syncserver/Cargo.toml b/syncserver/Cargo.toml
index 224ac746..7c26ac3f 100644
--- a/syncserver/Cargo.toml
+++ b/syncserver/Cargo.toml
@@ -63,3 +63,4 @@ no_auth = []
 py_verifier = ["tokenserver-auth/py"]
 mysql = ["syncstorage-db/mysql"]
 spanner = ["syncstorage-db/spanner"]
+actix-compress = ["actix-web/compress-brotli", "actix-web/compress-gzip", "actix-web/compress-zstd"]