diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/Dispatchers/ManagedHttpDispatcher.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/Dispatchers/ManagedHttpDispatcher.cs
index 70ee66390..d9046eb55 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/Dispatchers/ManagedHttpDispatcher.cs
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Http/Dispatchers/ManagedHttpDispatcher.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 using System;
 using System.IO;
+using System.IO.Compression;
 using System.Net;
 using NzbDrone.Common.EnvironmentInfo;
 using NzbDrone.Common.Extensions;
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Http.Dispatchers
             // Deflate is not a standard and could break depending on implementation.
             // we should just stick with the more compatible Gzip
             //http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8490718/how-to-decompress-stream-deflated-with-java-util-zip-deflater-in-net
-            webRequest.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip;
+            webRequest.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.None;
 
             webRequest.Method = request.Method.ToString();
             webRequest.UserAgent = _userAgentBuilder.GetUserAgent(request.UseSimplifiedUserAgent);
@@ -36,6 +37,8 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Http.Dispatchers
             webRequest.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
             webRequest.CookieContainer = cookies;
 
+            webRequest.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
+
             if (request.RequestTimeout != TimeSpan.Zero)
             {
                 webRequest.Timeout = (int)Math.Ceiling(request.RequestTimeout.TotalMilliseconds);
@@ -107,6 +110,20 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Http.Dispatchers
                     try
                     {
                         data = responseStream.ToBytes();
+
+                        // Do our own decompression.
+                        if (httpWebResponse.ContentEncoding == "gzip")
+                        {
+                            using (var compressedStream = new MemoryStream(data))
+                            using (var gzip = new GZipStream(compressedStream, CompressionMode.Decompress))
+                            using (var decompressedStream = new MemoryStream())
+                            {
+                                gzip.CopyTo(decompressedStream);
+                                data = decompressedStream.ToArray();
+                            }
+
+                            httpWebResponse.Headers.Remove("Content-Encoding");
+                        }
                     }
                     catch (Exception ex)
                     {