diff --git a/lib/progress.js b/lib/progress.js
index 18af745..2de6a41 100644
--- a/lib/progress.js
+++ b/lib/progress.js
@@ -126,8 +126,18 @@ export function estimate(requestAsync, isBrowser) {
 		);
 
 		if (!isBrowser && utils.isResponseCompressed(response)) {
-			const { createGunzip } = require('zlib');
-			const gunzip = createGunzip();
+			const zlib = require('zlib');
+
+			// Be more lenient with decoding compressed responses, since (very rarely)
+			// servers send slightly invalid gzip responses that are still accepted
+			// by common browsers.
+			// Always using Z_SYNC_FLUSH is what cURL does.
+			var zlibOptions = {
+				flush: zlib.constants.Z_SYNC_FLUSH,
+				finishFlush: zlib.constants.Z_SYNC_FLUSH
+			}
+
+			const gunzip = zlib.createGunzip(zlibOptions);
 
 			// Uncompress after or before piping through progress
 			// depending on the response length available to us