The request lib will automatically decompress the response for you. I think 
you'd be better off using http.request or http.get directly and avoiding any 
possible double handling. You can still pipe the response as you are now.

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On Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Jamison Dance wrote:

> I have an Express server with a route that just proxies a request to
> another server and pipes it back to the client. It looks like this:
> 
> var request = require('request');
> function('/whatever', function(req, res) {
> request.get({url: 'http://example.com/someGzippedThing', json:
> true}).pipe(res);
> });
> 
> If I hit http://example.com/someGzippedThing, the response is gzipped.
> However, when I hi the /whatever route of my own server, the response
> is not gzipped. How can I make sure it stays gzipped when it gets
> piped back to the client?
> 
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