diff --git a/src/httpfetch.cpp b/src/httpfetch.cpp
index 140bcbe97..d8504ad64 100644
--- a/src/httpfetch.cpp
+++ b/src/httpfetch.cpp
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ HTTPFetchOngoing::HTTPFetchOngoing(const HTTPFetchRequest &request_,
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 1);
+	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip");
 
 	std::string bind_address = g_settings->get("bind_address");
 	if (!bind_address.empty()) {