From 8d7af13ecfc1ab0f3728bad0bd43298f0d9f217c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tessa Walsh <tessa@bitarchivist.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:34:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Set Accept-Encoding to identity

---
 pywb/utils/loaders.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pywb/utils/loaders.py b/pywb/utils/loaders.py
index b0e78cfb..c5402ba1 100644
--- a/pywb/utils/loaders.py
+++ b/pywb/utils/loaders.py
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ class HttpLoader(BaseLoader):
         Load a file-like reader over http using range requests
         and an optional cookie created via a cookie_maker
         """
-        headers = {}
+        headers = {"Accept-Encoding": "identity"}
         if offset != 0 or length != -1:
             headers['Range'] = BlockLoader._make_range_header(offset, length)