diff --git a/common/azure-storage-common.gemspec b/common/azure-storage-common.gemspec
index beeb3d7581bfd10259f171a4e9c0105a64c8cdf1..53afddb35b15bb1d4bb78db66b1c48943f3dc0db 100644
--- a/common/azure-storage-common.gemspec
+++ b/common/azure-storage-common.gemspec
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.add_runtime_dependency('faraday',                 '~> 1.0')
   s.add_runtime_dependency('faraday_middleware',      '~> 1.0.0.rc1')
+  s.add_runtime_dependency("net-http-persistent",     '~> 4.0')
   s.add_runtime_dependency("nokogiri",                "~> 1.10.4")
 
   s.add_development_dependency("dotenv",              "~> 2.0")