Received response with content-encoding: gzip, but failed to decode it

[wavenator]

import requests

requests.get('http://gett.bike/')

This code raises the following exception:

ContentDecodingError: ('Received response with content-encoding: gzip, but failed to decode it.',
error('Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect data check',))

Arch linux x64
requests==2.13.0
python=3.6.0

[Lukasa]

This seems like the server is returning data it claims is gzipped, but isn't, or is invalid somehow. curl agrees with this assessment, as you can see by doing curl -L --compressed http://gett.bike, which leads to:

curl: (23) Error while processing content unencoding: invalid block type

You can work around this for now by setting the Accept-Encoding header to identity:

import requests

requests.get('http://gett.bike/', headers={'Accept-Encoding': 'identity'})

But I strongly recommend you reach out to the server operator and get them to fix their server.

[joshlsullivan]

I'm now receiving that same error. I've even switched hosting providers. Here's my output. Any ideas?

Request Method: GET
Request URL: https://sm8attachments.com/authenticate/callback/?code=1ace2d4df855a2b7e5fb6b1add0581102127cd5b&state=

Django Version: 2.1
Python Version: 3.6.6
Installed Applications:
['django.contrib.admin',
 'django.contrib.auth',
 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
 'django.contrib.sessions',
 'django.contrib.messages',
 'django.contrib.staticfiles',
 'django_celery_results',
 'django.contrib.sites',
 'user',
 'account',
 'attachment',
 'webhook',
 'authenticate',
 'subscribe',
 'home']
Installed Middleware:
('whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
 'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware')



Traceback:

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/response.py" in _decode
  295.                 data = self._decoder.decompress(data)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/response.py" in decompress
  77.                 ret += self._obj.decompress(data)

During handling of the above exception (Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect data check), another exception occurred:

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py" in generate
  749.                     for chunk in self.raw.stream(chunk_size, decode_content=True):

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/response.py" in stream
  465.                 data = self.read(amt=amt, decode_content=decode_content)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/response.py" in read
  437.             data = self._decode(data, decode_content, flush_decoder)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/response.py" in _decode
  300.                 "failed to decode it." % content_encoding, e)

During handling of the above exception (('Received response with content-encoding: gzip, but failed to decode it.', error('Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect data check',))), another exception occurred:

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py" in inner
  34.             response = get_response(request)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in _get_response
  126.                 response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in _get_response
  124.                 response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py" in view
  68.             return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py" in dispatch
  88.         return handler(request, *args, **kwargs)

File "/app/authenticate/views.py" in get
  58.         for vendor in get_vendors(r['access_token']):

File "/app/authenticate/views.py" in get_vendors
  34.     vendors = requests.get(url, headers=headers).json()

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/api.py" in get
  72.     return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/api.py" in request
  58.         return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/sessions.py" in request
  512.         resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/sessions.py" in send
  662.             r.content

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py" in content
  827.                 self._content = b''.join(self.iter_content(CONTENT_CHUNK_SIZE)) or b''

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py" in generate
  754.                     raise ContentDecodingError(e)

Exception Type: ContentDecodingError at /authenticate/callback/
Exception Value: ('Received response with content-encoding: gzip, but failed to decode it.', error('Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect data check',))```