Cherry-pick from https://github.com/nymtech/nym/commit/f6846bf94a190baf07eec4edac9ddb3a34451d30

common/http-api-client/Cargo.toml

@@ -12,7 +12,13 @@ license.workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
 async-trait = { workspace = true }
-reqwest = { workspace = true, features = ["json", "gzip"] }
+reqwest = { workspace = true, features = [
+    "json",
+    "gzip",
+    "deflate",
+    "brotli",
+    "zstd",
+] }
 http.workspace = true
 url = { workspace = true }
 once_cell = { workspace = true }
@@ -30,7 +36,10 @@ mime = { workspace = true }
 nym-bin-common = { path = "../bin-common" }
 
 [target."cfg(not(target_arch = \"wasm32\"))".dependencies]
-hickory-resolver = { workspace = true, features = ["dns-over-https-rustls", "webpki-roots"] }
+hickory-resolver = { workspace = true, features = [
+    "dns-over-https-rustls",
+    "webpki-roots",
+] }
 
 # for request timeout until https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/issues/1135 is fixed
 [target."cfg(target_arch = \"wasm32\")".dependencies.wasmtimer]

common/http-api-client/src/lib.rs

@@ -265,14 +265,18 @@ impl ClientBuilder {
 
         #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
         let reqwest_client_builder = {
-            let r = reqwest::ClientBuilder::new();
+            // Note: I believe the manual enable calls for the compression methods are extra
-
+            // as the various compression features for `reqwest` crate should be enabled
-            // Note this is extra as the `gzip` feature for `reqwest` crate should be enabled which
+            // just by including the feature which:
-            // `"Enable[s] auto gzip decompression by checking the Content-Encoding response header."`
+            // `"Enable[s] auto decompression by checking the Content-Encoding response header."`
             //
-            // I am going to leave it here anyways so that gzip decompression is attempted even if
+            // I am going to leave these here anyways so that removing a decompression method
-            // that feature is removed.
+            // from the features list will throw an error if it is not also removed here.
-            r.gzip(true)
+            reqwest::ClientBuilder::new()
+                .gzip(true)
+                .deflate(true)
+                .brotli(true)
+                .zstd(true)
         };
 
         ClientBuilder {
@@ -535,11 +539,6 @@ impl ApiClientCore for Client {
 
         let mut request = self.reqwest_client.request(method.clone(), url);
 
-        // Indicate that compressed responses are preferred, but if not supported other encodings are fine.
-        // TODO: Down the road we can be more selective about adding this, but it's inclusion here guarantees
-        // that we use compression when available.
-        request = request.header(reqwest::header::ACCEPT_ENCODING, "gzip;q=1.0, *;q=0.5");
-
         if let Some(body) = json_body {
             request = request.json(body);
         }