diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a08198ba3..c64d72e49 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ name = "actix_web"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [features]
-default = []
+default = ["session"]
 
 # tls
 tls = ["native-tls", "tokio-tls"]
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ tls = ["native-tls", "tokio-tls"]
 # openssl
 alpn = ["openssl", "openssl/v102", "openssl/v110", "tokio-openssl"]
 
+# sessions
+session = ["cookie/secure"]
+
 [dependencies]
 actix = "^0.5.2"
 
@@ -63,7 +66,7 @@ time = "0.1"
 encoding = "0.2"
 language-tags = "0.2"
 url = { version="1.7", features=["query_encoding"] }
-cookie = { version="0.10", features=["percent-encode", "secure"] }
+cookie = { version="0.10", features=["percent-encode"] }
 
 # io
 mio = "^0.6.13"
diff --git a/src/middleware/mod.rs b/src/middleware/mod.rs
index cfda04b9e..6f85dfeb5 100644
--- a/src/middleware/mod.rs
+++ b/src/middleware/mod.rs
@@ -6,12 +6,16 @@ use httprequest::HttpRequest;
 use httpresponse::HttpResponse;
 
 mod logger;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "session")]
 mod session;
 mod defaultheaders;
 pub mod cors;
 pub mod csrf;
 pub use self::logger::Logger;
 pub use self::defaultheaders::{DefaultHeaders, DefaultHeadersBuilder};
+
+#[cfg(feature = "session")]
 pub use self::session::{RequestSession, Session, SessionImpl, SessionBackend, SessionStorage,
                         CookieSessionError, CookieSessionBackend, CookieSessionBackendBuilder};