diff --git a/src/precompile.jl b/src/precompile.jl
index 56e8a59d..e9c53ad2 100644
--- a/src/precompile.jl
+++ b/src/precompile.jl
@@ -1,40 +1,44 @@
 using PrecompileTools: @setup_workload, @compile_workload
 
-@setup_workload begin
-    # These need to be safe to call here and bake into the pkgimage, i.e. called twice.
-    Connections.__init__()
-    MultiPartParsing.__init__()
-    Parsers.__init__()
+try
+    @setup_workload begin
+        # These need to be safe to call here and bake into the pkgimage, i.e. called twice.
+        Connections.__init__()
+        MultiPartParsing.__init__()
+        Parsers.__init__()
 
-    # Doesn't seem to be needed here, and might not be safe to call twice (here and during runtime)
-    # ConnectionRequest.__init__()
+        # Doesn't seem to be needed here, and might not be safe to call twice (here and during runtime)
+        # ConnectionRequest.__init__()
 
-    gzip_data(data::String) = read(GzipCompressorStream(IOBuffer(data)))
+        gzip_data(data::String) = read(GzipCompressorStream(IOBuffer(data)))
 
-    # random port in the dynamic/private range (49152–65535) which are are
-    # least likely to be used by well-known services
-    _port = 57813
+        # random port in the dynamic/private range (49152–65535) which are are
+        # least likely to be used by well-known services
+        _port = 57813
 
-    cert, key = joinpath.(@__DIR__, "../test", "resources", ("cert.pem", "key.pem"))
-    sslconfig = MbedTLS.SSLConfig(cert, key)
+        cert, key = joinpath.(@__DIR__, "../test", "resources", ("cert.pem", "key.pem"))
+        sslconfig = MbedTLS.SSLConfig(cert, key)
 
-    server = HTTP.serve!("0.0.0.0", _port; verbose = -1, listenany=true, sslconfig=sslconfig) do req
-        HTTP.Response(200,  ["Content-Encoding" => "gzip"], gzip_data("dummy response"))
-    end
-    # listenany allows changing port if that one is already in use, so check the actual port
-    _port = HTTP.port(server)
-    url = "https://localhost:$_port"
-
-    env = ["JULIA_NO_VERIFY_HOSTS" => "localhost",
-           "JULIA_SSL_NO_VERIFY_HOSTS" => nothing,
-           "JULIA_ALWAYS_VERIFY_HOSTS" => nothing]
-    withenv(env...) do
-        @compile_workload begin
-            HTTP.get(url);
+        server = HTTP.serve!("0.0.0.0", _port; verbose = -1, listenany=true, sslconfig=sslconfig) do req
+            HTTP.Response(200,  ["Content-Encoding" => "gzip"], gzip_data("dummy response"))
+        end
+        # listenany allows changing port if that one is already in use, so check the actual port
+        _port = HTTP.port(server)
+        url = "https://localhost:$_port"
+
+        env = ["JULIA_NO_VERIFY_HOSTS" => "localhost",
+            "JULIA_SSL_NO_VERIFY_HOSTS" => nothing,
+            "JULIA_ALWAYS_VERIFY_HOSTS" => nothing]
+        withenv(env...) do
+            @compile_workload begin
+                HTTP.get(url);
+            end
         end
-    end
 
-    HTTP.forceclose(server)
-    yield() # needed on 1.9 to avoid some issue where it seems a task doesn't stop before serialization
-    server = nothing
+        HTTP.forceclose(server)
+        yield() # needed on 1.9 to avoid some issue where it seems a task doesn't stop before serialization
+        server = nothing
+    end
+catch e
+    @info "Ignoring an error that occurred during the precompilation workload" exception=(e, catch_backtrace())
 end