More lenient gzip decompression

request.js

@@ -946,11 +946,20 @@ Request.prototype.onRequestResponse = function (response) {
       var contentEncoding = response.headers['content-encoding'] || 'identity'
       contentEncoding = contentEncoding.trim().toLowerCase()
 
+      // 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.Z_SYNC_FLUSH
+      , finishFlush: zlib.Z_SYNC_FLUSH
+      }
+
       if (contentEncoding === 'gzip') {
-        responseContent = zlib.createGunzip()
+        responseContent = zlib.createGunzip(zlibOptions)
         response.pipe(responseContent)
       } else if (contentEncoding === 'deflate') {
-        responseContent = zlib.createInflate()
+        responseContent = zlib.createInflate(zlibOptions)
         response.pipe(responseContent)
       } else {
         // Since previous versions didn't check for Content-Encoding header,

tests/test-gzip.js

@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ var server = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
       res.writeHead(200)
       res.write(testContentBigGzip.slice(0, 4096))
       setTimeout(function() { res.end(testContentBigGzip.slice(4096)) }, 10)
+    } else if (req.url === '/just-slightly-truncated') {
+      zlib.gzip(testContent, function(err, data) {
+        assert.equal(err, null)
+        // truncate the CRC checksum and size check at the end of the stream
+        res.end(data.slice(0, data.length-8))
+      })
     } else {
       zlib.gzip(testContent, function(err, data) {
         assert.equal(err, null)
@@ -96,6 +102,16 @@ tape('transparently supports gzip decoding to callbacks', function(t) {
   })
 })
 
+tape('supports slightly invalid gzip content', function(t) {
+  var options = { url: server.url + '/just-slightly-truncated', gzip: true }
+  request.get(options, function(err, res, body) {
+    t.equal(err, null)
+    t.equal(res.headers['content-encoding'], 'gzip')
+    t.equal(body, testContent)
+    t.end()
+  })
+})
+
 tape('transparently supports gzip decoding to pipes', function(t) {
   var options = { url: server.url + '/foo', gzip: true }
   var chunks = []