Axios get response body without decompress in gzip

Question

I have 2 express servers, one working as backend resolving queries to DB and the other working as proxy to redirect requests.

Frontend request every data petition to proxy which, in turn sends a modified request via axios to backend in order to get data results.

The backend server compress response body in gzip format. However, axios by default decompress the response returned by backend and then sends the original size to frontend.

I want axios to keep the response compressed so the one in charge of decompress it is user's navigator.

Is there any option or way to do this?

EDIT: Axios request headers include:

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br

However, axios response headers are (without 'Content-Encoding: gzip'):

Answer 1

This is an old question but still the first Google result for "axios keep gzip" or similar.

Axios now supports decompress option in its RequestOptions. Set it to false and it will NOT decompress your response and WILL keep the original Content-Encoding header.