diff --git a/src/httpfetch.cpp b/src/httpfetch.cpp
index 355ace35713d..b5fece2e62f9 100644
--- a/src/httpfetch.cpp
+++ b/src/httpfetch.cpp
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ HTTPFetchOngoing::HTTPFetchOngoing(const HTTPFetchRequest &request_,
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 3);
-	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip");
+	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, ""); // = all supported ones
 
 	std::string bind_address = g_settings->get("bind_address");
 	if (!bind_address.empty()) {