diff -r 2ae060c0fa91 indra/llmessage/llurlrequest.cpp
--- a/indra/llmessage/llurlrequest.cpp	Mon Mar 21 17:56:01 2011 -0700
+++ b/indra/llmessage/llurlrequest.cpp	Mon Mar 28 17:56:43 2011 -0700
@@ -440,6 +440,9 @@
 	case HTTP_GET:
 		mDetail->mCurlRequest->setopt(CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1);
 		mDetail->mCurlRequest->setopt(CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
+
+		// Set Accept-Encoding to allow response compression
+		mDetail->mCurlRequest->setoptString(CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
 		rv = true;
 		break;
 
@@ -464,6 +467,9 @@
 
 		// Set the handle for an http post
 		mDetail->mCurlRequest->setPost(NULL, bytes);
+
+		// Set Accept-Encoding to allow response compression
+		mDetail->mCurlRequest->setoptString(CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
 		rv = true;
 		break;