diff --git a/src/gui/lua/lua_curl.cpp b/src/gui/lua/lua_curl.cpp
index 389aad1f9..9bcf47ef5 100644
--- a/src/gui/lua/lua_curl.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/lua/lua_curl.cpp
@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ Example:
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, (long)connectTimeout);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1L);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
+	/* enable all supported built-in compressions */
+	curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING, "");
 
 	if (!userAgent.empty())
 		curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, userAgent.c_str());