kitten icat GIF seems corrupted over ssh

[jarbus]

Describe the bug
kitten icat GIF.gif works as expected on the machine running the kitty process, but when connecting through the ssh kitten, the frames seem to get corrupted
To Reproduce

1. SSH to remote server that has the below gif on it
2. kitten icat GIF.gif

Expected gif:

Last frame over ssh:

Environment details

kitty 0.27.0 () created by Kovid Goyal
Linux archlinux 6.1.8-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:07:04 +0000 x86_64
Arch Linux 6.1.8-arch1-1 (/dev/tty)

DISTRIB_ID="Arch"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="rolling"
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Arch Linux"
Running under: X11
Frozen: True
Paths:
  kitty: /home/jack/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitty
  base dir: /home/jack/.local/kitty.app/lib/kitty
  extensions dir: /home/jack/.local/kitty.app/lib/kitty-extensions
  system shell: /bin/zsh
Loaded config files:
  /home/jack/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

Config options different from defaults:
allow_remote_control    yes
enable_audio_bell       False
font_family             Unifont
font_size               24.0
listen_on               unix:/tmp/mykitty

[kovidgoyal]

I'll look at this when I have a moment, but can you do a quick test. When running locally, does using --transfer-mode stream replicate the issue?

[page-down]

... does using --transfer-mode stream replicate the issue?

Yes, I can reproduce the issue with --transfer-mode stream.

[jarbus]

Epic response time, thank you!