Requests: Received response with content-encoding: gzip, but failed to decode it

[wavenator]

import requests

requests.get('http://gett.bike/')

This code raises the following exception:

ContentDecodingError: ('Received response with content-encoding: gzip, but failed to decode it.',
error('Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect data check',))

Arch linux x64
requests==2.13.0
python=3.6.0

[Lukasa]

This seems like the server is returning data it claims is gzipped, but isn't, or is invalid somehow. curl agrees with this assessment, as you can see by doing curl -L --compressed http://gett.bike, which leads to:

curl: (23) Error while processing content unencoding: invalid block type

You can work around this for now by setting the Accept-Encoding header to identity:

import requests

requests.get('http://gett.bike/', headers={'Accept-Encoding': 'identity'})

But I strongly recommend you reach out to the server operator and get them to fix their server.

[joshlsullivan]

I'm now receiving that same error. I've even switched hosting providers. Here's my output. Any ideas?

```Environment:

Request Method: GET
Request URL: https://sm8attachments.com/authenticate/callback/?code=1ace2d4df855a2b7e5fb6b1add0581102127cd5b&state=

Django Version: 2.1
Python Version: 3.6.6
Installed Applications:
['django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'django_celery_results',
'django.contrib.sites',
'user',
'account',
'attachment',
'webhook',
'authenticate',
'subscribe',
'home']
Installed Middleware:
('whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware')

Traceback:

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/response.py" in _decode

1. data = self._decoder.decompress(data)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/response.py" in decompress

1. ret += self._obj.decompress(data)

During handling of the above exception (Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect data check), another exception occurred:

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py" in generate

1. for chunk in self.raw.stream(chunk_size, decode_content=True):

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/response.py" in stream

1. data = self.read(amt=amt, decode_content=decode_content)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/response.py" in read

1. data = self._decode(data, decode_content, flush_decoder)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/urllib3/response.py" in _decode

1. "failed to decode it." % content_encoding, e)

During handling of the above exception (('Received response with content-encoding: gzip, but failed to decode it.', error('Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect data check',))), another exception occurred:

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py" in inner

1. response = get_response(request)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in _get_response

1. response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in _get_response

1. response = wrapped_callback(request, callback_args, *callback_kwargs)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py" in view

1. return self.dispatch(request, args, *kwargs)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py" in dispatch

1. return handler(request, args, *kwargs)

File "/app/authenticate/views.py" in get

1. for vendor in get_vendors(r['access_token']):

File "/app/authenticate/views.py" in get_vendors

1. vendors = requests.get(url, headers=headers).json()

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/api.py" in get

1. return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/api.py" in request

1. return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/sessions.py" in request

1. resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/sessions.py" in send

1. r.content

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py" in content

1. self._content = b''.join(self.iter_content(CONTENT_CHUNK_SIZE)) or b''

File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/requests/models.py" in generate

1. raise ContentDecodingError(e)

Exception Type: ContentDecodingError at /authenticate/callback/
Exception Value: ('Received response with content-encoding: gzip, but failed to decode it.', error('Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect data check',))```