diff --git a/lib/adapters/http.js b/lib/adapters/http.js
index 4965cd4859..dc833ccfdf 100755
--- a/lib/adapters/http.js
+++ b/lib/adapters/http.js
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ import EventEmitter from 'events';
 const zlibOptions = {
   flush: zlib.constants.Z_SYNC_FLUSH,
   finishFlush: zlib.constants.Z_SYNC_FLUSH
+};
+
+const brotliOptions = {
+  flush: zlib.constants.BROTLI_OPERATION_FLUSH,
+  finishFlush: zlib.constants.BROTLI_OPERATION_FLUSH
 }
 
 const isBrotliSupported = utils.isFunction(zlib.createBrotliDecompress);
@@ -417,7 +422,9 @@ export default isHttpAdapterSupported && function httpAdapter(config) {
         switch (res.headers['content-encoding']) {
         /*eslint default-case:0*/
         case 'gzip':
+        case 'x-gzip':
         case 'compress':
+        case 'x-compress':
         case 'deflate':
           // add the unzipper to the body stream processing pipeline
           streams.push(zlib.createUnzip(zlibOptions));
@@ -427,7 +434,7 @@ export default isHttpAdapterSupported && function httpAdapter(config) {
           break;
         case 'br':
           if (isBrotliSupported) {
-            streams.push(zlib.createBrotliDecompress(zlibOptions));
+            streams.push(zlib.createBrotliDecompress(brotliOptions));
             delete res.headers['content-encoding'];
           }
         }
diff --git a/lib/platform/browser/index.js b/lib/platform/browser/index.js
index 4ba2c7dbfa..3de84afd6b 100644
--- a/lib/platform/browser/index.js
+++ b/lib/platform/browser/index.js
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ const isStandardBrowserEnv = (() => {
  const isStandardBrowserWebWorkerEnv = (() => {
   return (
     typeof WorkerGlobalScope !== 'undefined' &&
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-undef
     self instanceof WorkerGlobalScope &&
     typeof self.importScripts === 'function'
   );
diff --git a/test/unit/adapters/http.js b/test/unit/adapters/http.js
index 146cdda790..afa616a940 100644
--- a/test/unit/adapters/http.js
+++ b/test/unit/adapters/http.js
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ function setTimeoutAsync(ms) {
 const pipelineAsync = util.promisify(stream.pipeline);
 const finishedAsync = util.promisify(stream.finished);
 const gzip = util.promisify(zlib.gzip);
+const deflate = util.promisify(zlib.deflate);
+const brotliCompress = util.promisify(zlib.brotliCompress);
 
 function toleranceRange(positive, negative) {
   const p = (1 + 1 / positive);
@@ -432,7 +434,7 @@ describe('supports http with nodejs', function () {
     });
   });
 
-  describe('compression', () => {
+  describe('compression', async () => {
     it('should support transparent gunzip', function (done) {
       var data = {
         firstName: 'Fred',
@@ -455,17 +457,17 @@ describe('supports http with nodejs', function () {
       });
     });
 
-  it('should support gunzip error handling', async () => {
-    server = await startHTTPServer((req, res) => {
-      res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
-      res.setHeader('Content-Encoding', 'gzip');
-      res.end('invalid response');
-    });
+    it('should support gunzip error handling', async () => {
+      server = await startHTTPServer((req, res) => {
+        res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
+        res.setHeader('Content-Encoding', 'gzip');
+        res.end('invalid response');
+      });
 
-    await assert.rejects(async ()=> {
-      await axios.get(LOCAL_SERVER_URL);
-    })
-  });
+      await assert.rejects(async () => {
+        await axios.get(LOCAL_SERVER_URL);
+      })
+    });
 
     it('should support disabling automatic decompression of response data', function(done) {
       var data = 'Test data';
@@ -488,32 +490,76 @@ describe('supports http with nodejs', function () {
       });
     });
 
-    it('should properly handle empty responses without Z_BUF_ERROR throwing', async () => {
-      this.timeout(10000);
+    describe('algorithms', ()=> {
+      const responseBody ='str';
+
+      for (const [type, zipped] of Object.entries({
+        gzip: gzip(responseBody),
+        compress: gzip(responseBody),
+        deflate: deflate(responseBody),
+        br: brotliCompress(responseBody)
+      })) {
+        describe(`${type} decompression`, async () => {
+          it(`should support decompression`, async () => {
+            server = await startHTTPServer(async (req, res) => {
+              res.setHeader('Content-Encoding', type);
+              res.end(await zipped);
+            });
 
-      server = await startHTTPServer((req, res) => {
-        res.setHeader('Content-Encoding', 'gzip');
-        res.end();
-      });
+            const {data} = await axios.get(LOCAL_SERVER_URL);
 
-      await axios.get(LOCAL_SERVER_URL);
-    });
+            assert.strictEqual(data, responseBody);
+          });
 
-    it('should not fail if response content-length header is missing', async () => {
-      this.timeout(10000);
+          it(`should not fail if response content-length header is missing (${type})`, async () => {
+            server = await startHTTPServer(async (req, res) => {
+              res.setHeader('Content-Encoding', type);
+              res.removeHeader('Content-Length');
+              res.end(await zipped);
+            });
 
-      const str = 'zipped';
-      const zipped = await gzip(str);
+            const {data} = await axios.get(LOCAL_SERVER_URL);
 
-      server = await startHTTPServer((req, res) => {
-        res.setHeader('Content-Encoding', 'gzip');
-        res.removeHeader('Content-Length');
-        res.end(zipped);
-      });
+            assert.strictEqual(data, responseBody);
+          });
+
+          it('should not fail with chunked responses (without Content-Length header)', async () => {
+            server = await startHTTPServer(async (req, res) => {
+              res.setHeader('Content-Encoding', type);
+              res.setHeader('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked');
+              res.removeHeader('Content-Length');
+              res.write(await zipped);
+              res.end();
+            });
+
+            const {data} = await axios.get(LOCAL_SERVER_URL);
+
+            assert.strictEqual(data, responseBody);
+          });
+
+          it('should not fail with an empty response without content-length header (Z_BUF_ERROR)', async () => {
+            server = await startHTTPServer((req, res) => {
+              res.setHeader('Content-Encoding', type);
+              res.removeHeader('Content-Length');
+              res.end();
+            });
+
+            const {data} = await axios.get(LOCAL_SERVER_URL);
 
-      const {data} = await axios.get(LOCAL_SERVER_URL);
+            assert.strictEqual(data, '');
+          });
+
+          it('should not fail with an empty response with content-length header (Z_BUF_ERROR)', async () => {
+            server = await startHTTPServer((req, res) => {
+              res.setHeader('Content-Encoding', type);
+              res.end();
+            });
+
+            await axios.get(LOCAL_SERVER_URL);
+          });
+        });
+      }
 
-      assert.strictEqual(data, str);
     });
   });