Can I force gzip decode?

My request returns a gzip encoded response but the responding server does not set the content-encoding to gzip. Looking at the code, the automatic gzip decoding only activates if content-encoding is gzip or am I missing something. Is there a way to force enable the gzip decoding? Or am i stuck with having to decode the response with my own code?

[xxczaki]

@teolag That’s right - when there is no `content-encoding header, node-fetch does not decode the response:

https://github.com/node-fetch/node-fetch/blob/0936a9af0a049eb05897779f3f0df6b903a95d60/src/index.js#L225

Right now there is no other way than handling the decompression yourself. I would highly recommend asking the server owner (if it’s possible of course) to add this header. We might add an option to force the decoding in the future.

[alexandregiordanelli]

import fetch, { Response } from "node-fetch";
import { pipeline } from "stream";
import { createGunzip } from "zlib";

fetch(url)
.then((x) => new Response(pipeline(x.body, createGunzip(), () => {}))) // strange but it works, if remove the useless function it dies; ()=>{}
    .then((x) => x.text()) //or whatever your content is