diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/CurlHttpClient.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/CurlHttpClient.php
index 6c86a522c814..e52a2cd0a537 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/CurlHttpClient.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpClient/CurlHttpClient.php
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ public function request(string $method, string $url, array $options = []): Respo
             $curlopts[CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL] = true;
         }
 
-        if (!isset($options['normalized_headers']['accept-encoding'])) {
-            $curlopts[CURLOPT_ENCODING] = ''; // Enable HTTP compression
+        if (!isset($options['normalized_headers']['accept-encoding']) && CURL_VERSION_LIBZ & self::$curlVersion['features']) {
+            $curlopts[CURLOPT_ENCODING] = 'gzip'; // Expose only one encoding, some servers mess up when more are provided
         }
 
         foreach ($options['headers'] as $header) {