diff --git a/libraries/http_request.inc b/libraries/http_request.inc
index 760d9926ec88cee9314149ff2c2c8e6027b20f9b..b4ed90c89476d7fa9d21873750ea00d15c52f811 100644
--- a/libraries/http_request.inc
+++ b/libraries/http_request.inc
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ function http_request_get($url, $username = NULL, $password = NULL, $accept_inva
     curl_setopt($download, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
     curl_setopt($download, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
     curl_setopt($download, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
+    curl_setopt($download, CURLOPT_ENCODING, '');
     if ($accept_invalid_cert) {
       curl_setopt($download, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
     }