--- urllib2.py	2006-06-19 11:22:56.000000000 +0200
+++ urllib2.py.new	2006-06-19 11:22:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -982,6 +982,9 @@
 
         headers = dict(req.headers)
         headers.update(req.unredirected_hdrs)
+        hasAcceptEncoding = "Accept-Encoding" in headers
+        if not hasAcceptEncoding: headers["Accept-Encoding"] = "gzip"
+
         # We want to make an HTTP/1.1 request, but the addinfourl
         # class isn't prepared to deal with a persistent connection.
         # It will try to read all remaining data from the socket,
@@ -1006,8 +1009,12 @@
         # XXX It might be better to extract the read buffering code
         # out of socket._fileobject() and into a base class.
 
-        r.recv = r.read
-        fp = socket._fileobject(r)
+        if not hasAcceptEncoding and r.getheader("Content-Encoding") == 'gzip':
+            import gzip
+            fp = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=r,mode='rb')
+        else:			
+            r.recv = r.read
+            fp = socket._fileobject(r)
 
         resp = addinfourl(fp, r.msg, req.get_full_url())
         resp.code = r.status