diff --git a/src/future/http/BaseHTTPFuture.php b/src/future/http/BaseHTTPFuture.php
index 591cf781..5d0c0f80 100644
--- a/src/future/http/BaseHTTPFuture.php
+++ b/src/future/http/BaseHTTPFuture.php
@@ -348,6 +348,26 @@ abstract class BaseHTTPFuture extends Future {
       }
     }
 
+    $content_encoding = null;
+    foreach ($headers as $header) {
+      list($name, $value) = $header;
+      $name = phutil_utf8_strtolower($name);
+      if (!strcasecmp($name, 'Content-Encoding')) {
+        $content_encoding = $value;
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+
+    switch ($content_encoding) {
+      case 'gzip':
+        $decoded_body = gzdecode($body);
+        if ($decoded_body === false) {
+          return $this->buildMalformedResult($raw_response);
+        }
+        $body = $decoded_body;
+        break;
+    }
+
     $status = new HTTPFutureHTTPResponseStatus(
       $response_code,
       $body,
diff --git a/src/future/http/HTTPSFuture.php b/src/future/http/HTTPSFuture.php
index 70804332..5b9dd7b0 100644
--- a/src/future/http/HTTPSFuture.php
+++ b/src/future/http/HTTPSFuture.php
@@ -280,12 +280,16 @@ final class HTTPSFuture extends BaseHTTPFuture {
       $headers = $this->getHeaders();
 
       $saw_expect = false;
+      $saw_accept = false;
       for ($ii = 0; $ii < count($headers); $ii++) {
         list($name, $value) = $headers[$ii];
         $headers[$ii] = $name.': '.$value;
-        if (!strncasecmp($name, 'Expect', strlen('Expect'))) {
+        if (!strcasecmp($name, 'Expect')) {
           $saw_expect = true;
         }
+        if (!strcasecmp($name, 'Accept-Encoding')) {
+          $saw_accept = true;
+        }
       }
       if (!$saw_expect) {
         // cURL sends an "Expect" header by default for certain requests. While
@@ -302,6 +306,15 @@ final class HTTPSFuture extends BaseHTTPFuture {
         //   http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2009-07/0008.html
         $headers[] = 'Expect:';
       }
+
+      if (!$saw_accept) {
+        if (!$use_streaming_parser) {
+          if ($this->canAcceptGzip()) {
+            $headers[] = 'Accept-Encoding: gzip';
+          }
+        }
+      }
+
       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
 
       // Set the requested HTTP method, e.g. GET / POST / PUT.
@@ -821,4 +834,8 @@ final class HTTPSFuture extends BaseHTTPFuture {
     );
   }
 
+  private function canAcceptGzip() {
+    return function_exists('gzdecode');
+  }
+
 }