diff -r 00e94e454813 Lib/http/client.py
--- a/Lib/http/client.py	Fri Feb 21 23:54:32 2014 +0100
+++ b/Lib/http/client.py	Sat Feb 22 00:31:48 2014 +0100
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ Req-sent-unread-response       _CS_REQ_S
 
 import email.parser
 import email.message
+import gzip
 import io
 import os
 import socket
@@ -526,6 +527,10 @@ class HTTPResponse(io.RawIOBase):
             self._close_conn()
             return 0
 
+        if self.getheader('Content-Encoding') == 'gzip':
+            self.fp = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=self.fp, mode='rb')
+            self.length = None
+
         if self.chunked:
             return self._readinto_chunked(b)